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11 Nov 2022

22:21 Design #1709 (Closed): Test tut-CoCoLA2
@tut-CoCoLa2.cocoa5@
prints out the result of @LinKer@ which may vary from call to call.
Change the test so that ...
John Abbott

07 Nov 2022

20:05 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
Ulrich suggests asking the QCodeEdit author if we distribute under GPLv3+
NOte: try website @https://bruant.info@...
John Abbott

04 Nov 2022

16:02 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
*Anna*
Could you check Ulrich's changelog in note-28 above.
He has made some changes regarding BOOST and @no-pie@
...
John Abbott
11:47 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
Ulrich, maybe it is simpler to send me a tar.gz of your configuration directory...
John Abbott
11:21 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
I am having trouble with the patch file. Many failed.
I'll email you my current sources, and hope you can produce a...
John Abbott

02 Nov 2022

10:33 Bug #1708: Linux: just 1 executable, should be 2 (with & without readline)
We had already discussed this about 2 years ago (issue #1479)
The script is ready to handle the case of 2 executable...
John Abbott
10:31 Bug #1708 (New): Linux: just 1 executable, should be 2 (with & without readline)
We are distributing CoCoA-5 with just a single executable (with readline).
We should be distributing 2 versions: one...
John Abbott

01 Nov 2022

22:02 Support #1707: User forum?
Indirectly suggested in email from Michael Wijaya (2022-11-01).
The idea seems good to me. MW indicated that send...
John Abbott
21:59 Support #1707 (New): User forum?
Should we make a user forum where CoCoA-5 users can post questions when they have problems?
John Abbott

24 Oct 2022

09:41 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
Thanks, Ulrich!
I hope to look at this during the week. I had already made several changes regarding BOOST, so I'll...
John Abbott
08:55 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
As a test I built the GUI successfully on OpenBSD.
The process exposed also several several minor issues with the ...
Ulrich von der Ohe

21 Oct 2022

15:53 Support #242: CoCoA-5 Projects for students (e.g. crediti F and tesi)
Added Feature #1701: could be a good source of ideas to be refined, tested, documented, developed. Anna Maria Bigatti
15:50 Feature #1701: Preliminary packages
Created new directory: *@src/CoCoA-5/packages/preliminary/@*
We'll think about documentation later...
John Abbott
15:25 Feature #1701 (In Progress): Preliminary packages
Anna approves the idea (in a nebulous way).
There are some thorny questions:
*(A)* how will these packages be docum...
John Abbott

19 Oct 2022

14:23 Design #1698: indent: return a string?
It has to be said that having indent returning a string would be more compatibile with the functions *@format@* and *... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:06 Design #1698: indent: return a string?
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> now that I'm using it, I'm having compatibility problems with the rest of the world stil...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:52 Design #1698: indent: return a string?
now that I'm using it, I'm having compatibility problems with the rest of the world still with earlier versions.
So ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

17 Oct 2022

14:38 Feature #1701: Preliminary packages
As an example, there was a package implementing some common "transcendental functions" (_e.g._ *@sin@*, *@log@*).
I ...
John Abbott
14:35 Feature #1701 (In Progress): Preliminary packages
Some while ago Kreuzer gave me many CoCoA packages developed by his students over the years.
I did look at a few o...
John Abbott
14:04 Design #1568: RMap and image: obsolescent?
Any progress here?
I'd like to complete this issue. It is one of those frustrating ones which take
quite a bit of ...
John Abbott
14:02 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual
I have some new students learning CoCoA-5.
I shall ask them for constructive feedback about improving the tutorials ...
John Abbott
13:59 Feature #1373 (In Progress): GFan also for Microsoft?
I am hoping to see Nico Mexis from time to time during this semester.
Perhaps I can ask him for notes about what he ...
John Abbott

14 Oct 2022

10:31 Design #1697: Specifying BOOST in configure
It seems that -Bstatic works only for linux... Anna Maria Bigatti
10:26 Design #1697: Specifying BOOST in configure
I would change @--with-boost@ with @--with-boost-hdrs@ or @--with-boost-incdir@ (or similar) to highlight that for bo... Anna Maria Bigatti
 

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