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13 Feb 2020

18:59 Bug #1408 (Closed): CoCoAManual - tex: error if syntax is missing
John Abbott
17:22 Feature #1401 (Closed): Parolacce e basi border
Robbiano dice che il nuovo codice di Long e` sufficiente. MK crede che la vecchia codice (in C++) sia piu` veloce.
...
John Abbott
17:17 Support #1318 (Closed): Clean CoCoA-5/tests directory
Marked some tests as *@INACTIVE@* (by changing file name); Anna thinks it is best to keep these tests around, in case... John Abbott
16:39 Feature #673 (Closed): Error message: I was expecting...
Seems OK now. No doubt the school in Vietnam will be an "interesting" proving ground.
Closing.
John Abbott
16:37 Feature #1364 (Closed): Emacs UI: start cocoa5 with system command enabled
The option is available unde the CoCoA-5 drop down menu. It remains active only the current emacs session: if you cl... John Abbott
16:30 Feature #1374 (Closed): Add function power to CoCoA-5
To appease Anna I have implemented the special case of the power of a diagonal matrix in CoCoALib (and removed @Power... John Abbott
16:09 Bug #1385 (Closed): valgrind: reports 456byte leak
John Abbott
16:08 Design #474: Eliminate package BinRepr
Not necessary for this release. The remaining fns should be ported to C++; then we can elim the package.
John Abbott
16:04 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
Maybe the move ctor from C++14 can help here?
Postponed because it will take (a lot of) time to fix.
John Abbott
15:50 Bug #1286: Website: trouble with the world map
The problem remains on the main page for CoCoA-4.7.5.
In any case, we are planning to hide/remove these (very old) p...
John Abbott
15:44 Support #1368 (Closed): Improve manual for mod
John Abbott
15:40 Design #1352 (Closed): cocoa5 (launch) script: sleep time
John Abbott
15:40 Feature #1410 (Closed): IsDivisible also for INT
manual done Anna Maria Bigatti
10:19 Feature #1410: IsDivisible also for INT
done... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:36 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
A command line flag for the CoCoAInterpreter is now available, but it does not yet open a socket. This will be fixed... John Abbott
15:29 Feature #1415 (In Progress): thmproving package
I have ported the code. In fact @thmproving.cpkg5@ is already included in 5.3.0, but completely undocumented. Let's... John Abbott
15:27 Feature #1415 (In Progress): thmproving package
Port old CoCoA-4 package *@thmproving@* to CoCoA-5. John Abbott
14:04 Bug #1412: Emacs UI: font size
See comment 6 in issue #1358. I think it might be relevant here.
John Abbott
14:03 Feature #1358 (Closed): Emacs UI: should active input line be cleared before sending line from CoCoA-5 file?
This has been working trouble-free for 3 months. Closing.
John Abbott
10:09 Bug #1230 (Closed): PrimaryDecomposition with lex ordering
I have added the example to @exbugs.cocoa5@
Closing!
John Abbott
09:25 Bug #1230 (Feedback): PrimaryDecomposition with lex ordering
Seems to work now.
We did not note how we fixed the problem in comment 5. :-/
closing?
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:35 Design #1327 (Closed): Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:30 Bug #1383 (Closed): NewPolyRing on MS Windows
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:29 Bug #1384 (Closed): NewPolyRing and SymbolRange
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:26 Bug #1273 (Closed): NewPolyRing and SymbolRange together make a crash
Anna Maria Bigatti

06 Feb 2020

18:45 Bug #1412: Emacs UI: font size
same here!
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:14 Bug #1412 (In Progress): Emacs UI: font size
An important clarification:
* if I send a line to CoCoA-5 then the magnification remains unaffected
* if I do *@Sou...
John Abbott

05 Feb 2020

22:48 Bug #1412: Emacs UI: font size
On my computer it keeps the big fonts.
Both on emacs-24 and emacs-26.
Anna Maria Bigatti
22:02 Bug #1412 (Closed): Emacs UI: font size
With my emacs (ver. 25) I can increase the size of the font using @C-x C-+@.
This also works for a @*cocoa5*@ comint...
John Abbott
14:12 Feature #1236: Add "socket" devices
I have made the manual entry better (I hope!)
John Abbott

04 Feb 2020

13:35 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
I have just spoken to Klaus.
JAA will try to modify the interpreter so that it send the "status messages" to a speci...
John Abbott

03 Feb 2020

17:47 Bug #1408 (Feedback): CoCoAManual - tex: error if syntax is missing
done. checked-in. Anna Maria Bigatti
15:08 Bug #1408 (In Progress): CoCoAManual - tex: error if syntax is missing
Yes, I think this is reasonable. Presumably the entries for the obsolescent commands should simply say which functio... John Abbott
11:32 Bug #1408 (Closed): CoCoAManual - tex: error if syntax is missing
I realized that tex fails if the syntax field of a command is missing, and the error message is not helpful (problem ... Anna Maria Bigatti
16:03 Feature #1410: IsDivisible also for INT
Yes. I think there are probably just two (main) cases:
* @RINGELEM@ and @RINGELEM@
* @INT@ and @INT@
* not so sur...
John Abbott
15:48 Feature #1410: IsDivisible also for INT
John Abbott wrote:
> I have been caught out by this myself on several occasions. I know one can use @mod@ instead, ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:42 Feature #1410 (In Progress): IsDivisible also for INT
I have been caught out by this myself on several occasions. I know one can use @mod@ instead, but it is more express... John Abbott
13:40 Feature #1410 (Closed): IsDivisible also for INT
In CoCoALib @IsDivisible@ works for various types of value, including integers.
In CoCoA-5, it expects just a @RINGE...
John Abbott

31 Jan 2020

13:57 Design #1407: Tagged values (Hilbert Series)
Done.
The solution I implemented is this. (a bit like public/private functions in C++)
The package $hp, responsibl...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:25 Design #1407: Tagged values (Hilbert Series)
Yes, i just want to create a "new" Hilbert series without knowing a generating system of the ring corresponding to it... Bernhard Andraschko
10:46 Design #1407: Tagged values (Hilbert Series)
Fate wants that I'm facing exactly the same problem!!
And I have a neat idea in mind!
Bernhard: which tags do you...
Anna Maria Bigatti

30 Jan 2020

14:14 Design #1407 (Closed): Tagged values (Hilbert Series)
Bernhard Andraschko has a new program which calculates Hilbert series.
He would like to make it produce a result com...
John Abbott

28 Jan 2020

15:56 Bug #1406 (New): Poor memory management?
I tried something like the following:... John Abbott
15:20 Support #1404: Which commands should "terms" be a keyword for?
hmmm, you are right.
"terms" should be in the keys for support, monomials, coefficients, at least.
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:41 Support #1404 (In Progress): Which commands should "terms" be a keyword for?
One possibility is that @?terms@ produces the page for @NumTerms@, but that then in the "see also" section there are ... John Abbott
14:26 Support #1404 (Closed): Which commands should "terms" be a keyword for?
What do you expect the CoCoA-5 manual to respond to the query:... John Abbott
11:57 Design #476: Review utility of package IO
I have implemented a *@fold@* function in CoCoALib, and exported it to CoCoA-5.
I have not implemented a "smart" f...
John Abbott
10:54 Bug #713 (Feedback): External libs: interrupting not easy
Since this issue was created we have also added @SignalWatcher@ to CoCoALib; so this issue is just as relevant to CoC... John Abbott
10:29 Feature #1358: Emacs UI: should active input line be cleared before sending line from CoCoA-5 file?
I think the function that I added is the following...
@(defun cocoa5-send-string (cocoa5-input-line)...)@
I prefe...
John Abbott
10:15 Bug #1384 (Feedback): NewPolyRing and SymbolRange
John Abbott

24 Jan 2020

21:32 Feature #1401: Parolacce e basi border
L'idea che il codice di Kaspar (BB in C++) muoia dispiace a Martin.
Ma non vedo proprio perche' io devo pagare il ...
John Abbott
15:00 Feature #1401: Parolacce e basi border
Maybe Long can do this. I certainly do not want to.
Why the F*** does Martin get his students to produce so much ...
John Abbott
14:59 Feature #1401 (Closed): Parolacce e basi border
Martin vuole che il vecchio pacchetto per le basi border sia tradotto in CoCoA-5.
Sono 1400 righe scritte da scimpan...
John Abbott
21:20 Bug #1403 (In Progress): RingID: remove this function?
Long insisted that if this function exists then there *must* also be a function which given the index would return th... John Abbott
17:54 Bug #1403: RingID: remove this function?
Maybe we should change the doc to say that people should not normally us this function?
John Abbott
17:52 Bug #1403 (In Progress): RingID: remove this function?
Long completely fails to understand why this function should not be used.
Delete it?
John Abbott
15:53 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
Here is what I get currently:... John Abbott
11:41 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
I have just modified @Interpreter.C@ so that it prints out @[WAITING FOR INPUT]@ and @[RUNNING]@.
A few quick tests ...
John Abbott
11:32 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
I have just spoken to Kreuzer, and he showed me that the old ApCoCoA GUI would indicate either "Calculation in progre... John Abbott

23 Jan 2020

17:32 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
Perhaps the relevant function is @Interpreter::readAndExecute@, not sure though... (too busy with other stuff curren... John Abbott
15:05 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
I looked through the CoCoA-4 code (which used a Qt interface).
The situation is different from Klaus's problem becau...
John Abbott

22 Jan 2020

15:01 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
A problem with watching for the prompt is that a user program might print out a copy of the prompt inside some string... John Abbott
09:58 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
For cocoa5 it's easy: if there is no prompt, then it is busy.
That was not the case for cocoa-4, which had no prompt...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:53 Support #1400 (In Progress): Title of manual entry: tutorial on operations on polynomials
I wanted to show my students how they could use the CoCoA on-line manual to find the function *@monomials@* knowing o... John Abbott
13:49 Support #1400 (Closed): Title of manual entry: tutorial on operations on polynomials
I have just added a new tutorial about operations on polynomials.
I think its title could be better. Suggestions?
John Abbott
10:46 Bug #1397 (In Progress): Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
The problem is in the constructor (I think)... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:07 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
I see that this give error with no crash (loading extra manuals). This was what worried me most.... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:03 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
ouch!
it should never happen, really.
But it is *bad*. I'll fixi it.
Anna Maria Bigatti

21 Jan 2020

20:36 Feature #1399 (In Progress): CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
I still have the C4 source code, but also have very little desire to delve into it to find out what was done for the ... John Abbott
20:24 Feature #1399 (Closed): CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
Klaus Nguetsa is building a new GUI for ApCoCoA+CoCoA-5.
He would like to emulate the feature on the old C4 GUI wh...
John Abbott
20:22 Support #1398: Website: hide/delete all the CoCoA-4 stuff?
I have put 5.3.0 as the target, since it would be good to do the cleaning before releasing 5.3.0, but it is not neces... John Abbott
20:21 Support #1398 (Closed): Website: hide/delete all the CoCoA-4 stuff?
Proposal: hide or remove all pages about CoCoA-4 (and its manual).
We could perhaps add a sentence that anyone who...
John Abbott
15:33 Bug #1397 (Closed): Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
If I make a manual query when the file @CoCoAHelp.xml@ is not found where expected, an @UNCAUGHT CoCoA ERROR@ happens... John Abbott

19 Jan 2020

10:56 Support #1315: Manual entry about reporting bugs?
BTW what was the original problem? Was it ever resolved? I suppose it was reported via email (?); when?
Why is the...
John Abbott
10:52 Feature #175: Approximate BuchbergerMoeller: port to CoCoA-5
I believe this is not urgent, and it would also require some time and effort to achieve, so postponing.
Not sure why...
John Abbott
10:47 Slug #1390 (Feedback): CoCoA-5 test: radical too slow
I have removed @ulimit@ from @RunTests.sh@.
All tests pass, even with debugging active.
Now all CoCoA-5 tests tog...
John Abbott

18 Jan 2020

20:40 Bug #1335: ManExamples: some problems
I have commented out the example for @StandardInput@. Hopefully the user will understand...
John Abbott
20:18 Support #1344: Clean out OBSOLESCENT
Check the manual. Perhaps genuinely remove the fns which are only commented out?
John Abbott
19:24 Bug #1396: Website: download page for CoCoA-4 burns CPU
I'll think about it and investigate
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:00 Bug #1396: Website: download page for CoCoA-4 burns CPU
I am inclined to remove the web pages about downloading CoCoA-4.
If we really want to continue to make it availabl...
John Abbott
14:59 Bug #1396 (Closed): Website: download page for CoCoA-4 burns CPU
By chance I landed on the download page for CoCoA-4 -- apparently we still have such a page!
It caused Firefox on ...
John Abbott

16 Jan 2020

16:31 Slug #1392 (In Progress): ApproxSolve: another slow example
We (Robbiano and I) found a way to solve it quickly: compute the radical first!... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:10 Design #1334: sylvester or SylvesterMat?
Added test to @test-MatrixSpecial1.C@
John Abbott
12:28 Design #1334 (Closed): sylvester or SylvesterMat?
There is no test, but otherwise the code looks fine. Closing. John Abbott
12:19 Support #1350: CoCoA manual: entry for operators, shortcuts
The standard arithmetic operators were not listed (plus, minus, times, divide, power). Maybe others too? We should ... John Abbott
12:17 Feature #1372: New function: find ?
This is probably a very useful issue, but I prefer to add new functions after the next release (unless this fn is nee... John Abbott
12:15 Bug #1230: PrimaryDecomposition with lex ordering
This seems to work for me now.
We must add a test to @exbugs.cocoa5@; we can simply copy the failing case from the...
John Abbott
 

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