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17 Feb 2020

15:18 Support #240: GUI compilation: GMP is not naturally thread-safe
This issue is very old. GMP has surely changed over the last 5 years (but last update was about 2 years ago).
The o...
John Abbott
15:10 Bug #755: Find out how to compile statically on linux
I propose:
* make Linux binaries *without* libblas
* make two binaries: the default one with @readline@, and anothe...
John Abbott
14:54 Support #1387: John's visit Feb 2020
Visit is over. We managed to do most things :-)
Closing.
John Abbott
14:51 Feature #1316 (Feedback): Matrix row reduction (rref)
Removed old impl. Added doc and test.
John Abbott
13:59 Feature #1367: CoCoA-5.3.0: release linked with more recent version of normaliz
Anna can you try compiling the latest version (3.8.4)?
Also note well what you had to do to make it compile.
John Abbott
13:58 Support #177: CoCoAManual: General part of the documentation is obsolete: update? discard?
This is not urgent for Vietnam; postponing. Though it we be good if we could make some progress.
John Abbott
13:55 Feature #1372: New function: find ?
I still prefer postponing this issue to the next version, so that we can discuss better the semantics, and when/if er... John Abbott

15 Feb 2020

23:52 Bug #1335 (Feedback): ManExamples: some problems
The current state is that only the entries for *@OpenSocket@*, *@ReloadMan@* and *@SystemCommand@* report errors.
I ...
John Abbott
23:41 Design #990: CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying
I have unpacked the latest targz "binary" file for CoCoA-5.2.9.
Some files erroneously have "execute" permission:
...
John Abbott
10:35 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
There was not enough time during my visit, so we were unable to look at this. Postponing to next version.
John Abbott
10:34 Support #1027: CoCoAManual: add a page with some emacs hints?
There is a tutorial about the emacs UI. Perhaps this can be extended; or maybe a "basic" and an "advanced" tutorial? John Abbott
10:30 Support #1418 (New): Manual entry for NewPolyRing
Make the manual entry for *@NewPolyRing@* easier to understand.
John Abbott
10:28 Feature #1290 (Closed): NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?
This seems to work fine now. The manual page needs cleaning; but I'll make a separate issue.
Closing.
John Abbott
10:23 Feature #1372: New function: find ?
@find@ may also behave in a "slightly unexpected" way:... John Abbott

14 Feb 2020

17:35 Feature #1372: New function: find ?
If the list @L@ contains entries of different types then the fn defn given above might produce an error (since @opera... John Abbott
17:27 Support #1386 (Closed): IsIndetPosPower: behaviour and manual page
Now it gives @false@.
Added test to @test-bug3.C@.
John Abbott
17:10 Bug #1286 (Closed): Website: trouble with the world map
John Abbott
13:51 Feature #1243: New function: Read a string into a list (of RingElem) -- CoCoA-5
I prefer A, John prefers B, so we'll have them both.
Write documentation.
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:43 Support #1400 (Closed): Title of manual entry: tutorial on operations on polynomials
Names have been improved. Perhaps we'll think of better ones after the COCOA School...
Closing.
John Abbott
10:54 Support #1311 (Closed): THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019
John Abbott
10:53 Support #1027: CoCoAManual: add a page with some emacs hints?
It would be nice to improve this a bit for Vietnam. Do we have enough time to do so?
John Abbott
10:50 Support #1312: Wrong links on page about COCOA School in Sapporo
We should remove the link to Sapporo (since it is no longer relevant).
Our web page is @http://cocoa.dima.unige.i...
John Abbott
10:48 Support #1312 (Closed): Wrong links on page about COCOA School in Sapporo
This cannot be solved: the remote has been replaced by something else.
Closing.
John Abbott
10:48 Support #1315 (Closed): Manual entry about reporting bugs?
final minor polishing.
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:22 Bug #519 (Closed): GUI: fix DEFINES in makefile
The old Qt interface has not worked for quite some time.
Also we now handle CPP flags in a different way (via the fi...
John Abbott
09:08 Support #1344 (Rejected): Clean out OBSOLESCENT
Anna assumes henceforth *TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY* for @obsolescent.cpkg5@.
She wants to extend it until eternity. Go...
John Abbott

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
 

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