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From 13 Jan 2022 to 11 Feb 2022
09 Feb 2022
- 19:41 Bug #922 (Closed): Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- My 13 year old MacBook now has MacOS 10.11.6. So if anyone is stuck on 10.6.8, they must have a very old computer.
... - 16:45 Bug #922: Release for MacOS: compilation on 10.11 incompatible with 10.6.8
- Does it still matter?
Should we worry about 10.6? I guess John can still compile it for any user who asks for it.
... - 16:49 Bug #1539: Website: installation instructions for Microsoft
- John Abbott wrote:
> With luck the current instructions will be well tested over the next couple of weeks.
> I hope... - 16:38 Support #1660: Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- Further improvement:
function PrintOBSOLESCENT and OBSOLETE, and variables for CoCoA versions.
Easier for the mai... - 14:26 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
- fixed *evalArgAsListOfSymbols*, updated test (@NewPolyRing@)
07 Feb 2022
- 19:23 Support #1660 (Feedback): Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- I've added the functions @ObsoleteFunc@ and @ObsolescentFunc@ producing the relevant string.
Now the code is easie... - 19:19 Support #1660 (Closed): Updating file obsolescent.cpkg5: make it easier
- The file "obsolescent.cpkg5" is designed to track the latest changes and help the user to keep his code up-to-date.
... - 18:27 Support #1658: LinKerZZ not documented
- I think there was some doubt as to what the correct name for this fn should be.
Don't recall the outcome: see issue... - 18:25 Support #1658 (Resolved): LinKerZZ not documented
- Written doc; added xrefs.
Found a bug (from the example put into manual); fixed it.
Will check in shortly.
- 17:27 Support #1658 (Closed): LinKerZZ not documented
- It seems that @LinKerZZ@ is callable from CoCoA-5, but is not documented.
Rectify (after checking that code is robus... - 17:57 Feature #1659 (New): Jordan Normal Form?
- CoCoA-5 can compute @eigenvectors@ (in a particular way).
Would it make sense to try to make it compute Jordan block...
06 Feb 2022
- 08:58 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- Current CVS compiles, runs and all tests pass on Linux-64, Linux-32 and my old MacBook.
05 Feb 2022
- 21:05 Support #1455 (In Progress): In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
- I have changed the impl of the fn @copy-CoCoAManual@. I have checked it in without testing!!
*Anna:* please check m... - 20:40 Support #1455: In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
- I do not like the function @copy-CoCoAManual@ in the script @release-common.sh@.
Currently it copies everything, and...
04 Feb 2022
- 14:34 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I have documented @MinGBoverZZ@ but no other function. It is clearly marked as @[PROTOTYPE]@.
The package is now ca...
03 Feb 2022
- 20:14 Bug #1244 (In Progress): MSatLinSolve: req minor improvements
- I have added a quick test in @BuiltinFunctions-MathSAT.C@.
A very quick test worked as hoped. But it needs more tes... - 20:02 Feature #1415: thmproving package
- Status?
Even something hasty is perhaps better than nothing?
- 20:01 Support #1471 (In Progress): Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- I have been postponing lots of issues which cannot be closed in the very immediate future.
I really hope we can get ... - 19:41 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- If we do make a hurried release (as I recommend), should we include a "health warning" that it is a hasty release?
- 18:52 Support #1471: Release CoCoA-5.4.0
- I'm wondering whether we should release 5.3.4 as soon as practicable... otherwise I doubt I'll be able to help make a...
- 19:57 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
- I do not want to lose this, but there is never time... grrr!
- 19:51 Feature #1549: Add sagbi package
- Either do it fast for 5.3.4, or postpone to next release!
If you can write some simple doc quickly, we get the benef... - 19:48 Design #929: Clean up CoCoALibSupplement
- This is one of those "tedious but necessary tasks" for which it is almost impossible to find time.
So postponing....... - 19:47 Design #474: Eliminate package BinRepr
- Postponing once again.... we must eventually actually do this!
- 19:44 Design #1407 (Feedback): Tagged values (Hilbert Series)
- The comments suggest that this issue is essentially fixed.. so I have advanced the status to feedback.
- 19:40 Bug #1294 (Closed): CoCoA-5 tests may fail even if executed correctly
- No complaints in several months... must be OK.
Closing!
- 19:37 Bug #1443 (Closed): Illegal instruction
- This issue has been dormant for 2 years. I suppose whatever the problem was has gone away.
Closing!
- 19:35 Feature #1373: GFan also for Microsoft?
- A student (Nico Mexis) here in Passau has reported succeeding getting GFan working on Microsoft.
How to find time to... - 19:32 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
- Can we close this issue? If not, postpone it!
- 19:30 Design #1504: OnlineHelp: XMLFileName
- I suppose the current status must be acceptable. No problems have been reported for a year.
Close?
- 19:28 Support #1447: Manual entry for RandomLinearForm
- Is this issue now resolved satisfactorily?
I guess so. If so, close it!
- 19:24 Support #1214: CoCoAManual: ensure that LaTeX compilation is "clean"
- Is this issue acceptably resolved? Close now?
- 19:14 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- So that we do not lose what has been done....
I suggest making the existing code into an official package; we should... - 16:53 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- What is the future of this package?
Florian is now rather busy with other things, so cannot in the foreseeable futur... - 19:10 Feature #606: Evaluate in ring operator (was called :: in CoCoA-4)
- Is this resolved to a satisfactory degree? I think @BringIn@ and @RingElem(P, string)@ cover most use cases.
Can we... - 19:07 Bug #1552: subst: not checking args properly
- The impl is rather messy.
I suppose the bus is not so terribly bad: it has not (apparently) caused trouble, and the ... - 19:03 Bug #1651 (Closed): SEGV subsets ??
- Too much stress to keep this open any longer. I'm pretty sure it is fixed now (and faster too).
Let the users do th...
02 Feb 2022
- 22:36 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I have a first version with modulus. I think it is probably faster, but still impressively slow :-/
I'll wait a bit... - 20:52 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- To be ale to tackle non-trivial examples, it would be very helpful to have a way of reducing polynomials modulo any c...
- 20:17 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ
- I have done some cleaning in the code, and have added a @SortBy@ to the list of pairs.
It seems to make the code run... - 16:49 Feature #1272 (In Progress): Groebner Bases over ZZ
- What is the status of this issue?
Is the latest version of the code above more-or-less ready to be included in a rel...
31 Jan 2022
- 17:49 Bug #1651 (Resolved): SEGV subsets ??
- I have modified the impl of @SubsetsN@ in @combinatoria.cpkg5@ so that it handles 2-subsets specially (avoiding recur...
27 Jan 2022
- 14:52 Feature #1644: Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- The idea seems reasonable, but what names should we use?
* @AsINT_symm@ or @AsINT_Symm@
* @AsINT_NonNeg@ or @AsINT... - 14:27 Support #1650: Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- How about *@[[command incomplete]]@*?
Though that does read rather like an error message...
26 Jan 2022
- 15:28 Bug #1651: SEGV subsets ??
- On my Mac I get...
- 12:53 Bug #1651 (In Progress): SEGV subsets ??
- I have just used @ulimit@ to increase my stacksize limit, and now I get "too many recursions":...
25 Jan 2022
- 16:32 Bug #1651: SEGV subsets ??
- On Julian's computer (Linux, CoCoA-5.3.3b), it gave a controlled CoCoA-5 error: "too many recursive calls" (or simila...
- 09:42 Bug #1651 (Closed): SEGV subsets ??
- This was a surprise:...
24 Jan 2022
- 20:42 Support #1650 (In Progress): Potentially confusing prompt: waiting for semicolon
- The following could be confusing:...
21 Jan 2022
- 10:27 Feature #1644 (In Progress): Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- Anna suggests these names: *@AsINT_Symm@* and *@AsINT_NonNeg@* (because @AsINT_LeastNonNeg@ is too long)
The idea i... - 10:12 Feature #1648 (New): ApproxSolve and RationalSolve take different input
- ApproxSolve expects an ideal (0-dim) and RationalSolve a list of polynnomials.
Choose which one we want, and modify ... - 10:10 Bug #1640 (Closed): MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
- We had effectively already taken into account the comment 5 above.
Anna has just changed the code slightly to orde...
20 Jan 2022
- 20:32 Bug #1640: MinSubsetOfGens does not find min subset
- Unfortunately I have lost the specific example (but I suppose a new one could easily be created).
I did notice the f... - 19:02 Feature #1644: Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- I have just given a demo to my students of using CRT to reconstruct a large integer value.
The demo happened to work...
13 Jan 2022
- 13:07 Feature #1644: Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- The current impl in @SmallFpImpl.H@ expects there to be a boolean data mem which says how to print (@LeastNonNeg@ or...
- 12:58 Feature #1644: Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- JAA thinks that allowing the user to choose should not cause any problems: it is just a matter of printing.
Mmm, w... - 12:57 Feature #1644 (In Progress): Allow user to choose whether to print finite field elems as symm residues or non-neg residue
- A student here asked how to make CoCoA-5 print elements of a finite field as the least non-neg residue class represen...
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