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From 07 Jun 2014 to 06 Jul 2014

04 Jul 2014

14:40 CoCoALib Design #581: C++14: MachineInt
It might be possible to use templates for the ctors of @MachineInt@ together with a mechanism for ensuring that the a... John Abbott
14:36 CoCoALib Design #581 (Closed): C++14: MachineInt
We must modify @MachineInt@ when switiching to C++14 because there is a new integral type: @(unsigned) long long@ John Abbott
12:12 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
John Abbott wrote:
> Should this issue be in CoCoA-5 or CoCoALib?
I think it can stay in CoCoA-5 because it is ea...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:39 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
Should this issue be in CoCoA-5 or CoCoALib?
You are right that there is no global register of rings currently. W...
John Abbott
10:50 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
John Abbott wrote:
> I'm still not happy with the name of @RingID@; the name makes me think that it *gets* the ID fr...
Anna Maria Bigatti

03 Jul 2014

13:28 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
I'm still not happy with the name of @RingID@; the name makes me think that it *gets* the ID from a ring, rather than... John Abbott
11:41 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
added function ID for RING Anna Maria Bigatti
11:29 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
what about this: (verbose, but not more than before the ID change)
I like it! .... but there is the problem of too m...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:05 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
John Abbott wrote:
> Yesterday Christof suggested that @ZZ@ and @QQ@ should always be printed that way (rather than ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:56 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
Yesterday Christof suggested that @ZZ@ and @QQ@ should always be printed that way (rather than @ring(0)@ and @ring(1)... John Abbott
08:40 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
fixed all tests, but we should still discuss on the output.
For example ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:32 CoCoALib Feature #580 (Resolved): Example for PPVector: ex-PPVector
resurrected old example, improved, cvs-ed Anna Maria Bigatti

02 Jul 2014

18:42 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
mostly done.... now I should update all the failing tests.... tomorrow Anna Maria Bigatti
17:21 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
John Abbott wrote:
> allow @RingID@ to have an optional second arg which is a string giving some info about the ring ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:19 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
Talked about this with Christof. Here's an idea we had:
allow @RingID@ to have an optional second arg which is a st...
John Abbott
16:54 CoCoA-5 Design #532 (Closed): New package: OBSOLESCENT
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:45 CoCoA-5 Support #456: CoCoAManual: New structure for manual?
Strictly related with #177 Anna Maria Bigatti
16:40 CoCoA-5 Support #177: CoCoAManual: General part of the documentation is obsolete: update? discard?
This was a very general issue: now split in more issues (mostly already closed in 5.1.0) Anna Maria Bigatti
16:29 CoCoA-5 Bug #34 (Resolved): CoCoAManual: obsolete entries in the manual
I added the key "obsolete".
now ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:11 CoCoA-5 Design #567 (Closed): Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote
No comments so another quick check and ... closing!
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:08 CoCoA-5 Bug #566 (Feedback): Online help: problem with "<>"
it's fine for me too... maybe we changed the code for some other reason and fixed this as a side effect.
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:03 CoCoA-5 Bug #397 (Closed): EMACS UI: fix windows splitting
This is discussed (and solved) in #464
Instead of trying to be clever now there are two entries in the CoCoA-5 menu ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:31 CoCoA-5 Feature #561: Emacs UI: unrecognized keywords (ImportByValue...)
fixed @ImportBy..@ and also @package@ (lower-case)
major cleaning of keyword strings (so that they almost none is wr...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:28 CoCoALib Feature #580 (Closed): Example for PPVector: ex-PPVector
The doc for @PPVector@ refers to an example, @ex-PPVector.C@, but no such file exists.
John Abbott
11:47 CoCoA-5 Feature #579 (In Progress): Prototype package for Linear Commutative Algebra
Write a prototype package for the algorithms described in the new Kreuzer-Robbiano book.
[related with Elisa Palezza...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:43 CoCoA-5 Support #398 (Closed): Resurrect Relnotes()
Anna Maria Bigatti

01 Jul 2014

17:09 CoCoA-5 Feature #578 (In Progress): Gaussian Elimination
The procedures @SwapRows@ and @SetRow@ were already available.
Now they are in the manual.
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:06 CoCoA-5 Feature #578 (In Progress): Gaussian Elimination
In CoCoALib we have some functions for Gaussian Elimination.
Choose which and how to make them available at CoCoA-5 ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:02 CoCoA-5 Feature #464 (Feedback): Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:02 CoCoA-5 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
I slightly improved the menu so that it indicates which splitting is defined.
(with a tick next to side-by-side or t...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:34 CoCoALib Bug #577 (Feedback): Hilbert crashes with > 100 indeterminates
fixed. Now using @CopyHPPower@ (copies the precomputed value or computes the correct one) instead of @HPPowerList@ (... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:04 CoCoALib Bug #577: Hilbert crashes with > 100 indeterminates
(sorry, I meant "101")
I found where the problem is (a hard limit = 100 in GlobalManager) and I am fixing it.
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:34 CoCoALib Bug #577: Hilbert crashes with > 100 indeterminates
I've just tried with my own "local" copy of C5; seems to work fine (even trying several times).
Platform is MacOSX 1...
John Abbott
12:42 CoCoALib Bug #577 (Closed): Hilbert crashes with > 100 indeterminates
... Anna Maria Bigatti

28 Jun 2014

20:48 CoCoA-5 Feature #464 (Resolved): Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
I think I fixed the "random" behaviour for the window splitting.
I added the choice in the CoCoA-5 menu and the flag...
Anna Maria Bigatti

26 Jun 2014

16:54 CoCoALib Support #302: Compilation on M$Windows: Visual Studio
I tried the newest cvs version and CoCoALib does compile in 32 and 64 bit. I only had to change what I have reported ... Christof Soeger
15:33 CoCoA-5 Design #576 (Closed): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
If there were any serious problems, they'd have come to light by now (almost 24 hours of testing!)
Closing.
John Abbott
12:27 CoCoA-5 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
> All in all, it really does seem to be a "useless" feature...
and was not in CoCoA-4. It's a pointless exception.
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:12 CoCoA-5 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
Here is a possible reason for wanting to allow juxtaposition of strings: if an input includes a very long string lite... John Abbott
15:14 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
How will rings be printed in resolutions?
I recall that CoCoA used a syntax like @ring#7@; we could do this (but i...
John Abbott
15:11 CoCoA-5 Bug #182 (Closed): Unescaped double quote inside superstring
This bug essentially vanished when we abolished multiline string literals.
Now that juxtaposed strings literals ar...
John Abbott
12:06 CoCoA-5 Bug #182: Unescaped double quote inside superstring
I have (temporarily?) disabled recognition of juxtaposed strings. The resulting behaviour on the example input is:
...
John Abbott
12:03 CoCoA-5 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
OK for a menu flag which indicates the preferred way of splitting.
Some while ago I added to @cocoa5.el@ the fn @c...
John Abbott
08:24 CoCoA-5 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?
Apparently (on Aquamacs) it splits horizontally or vertically depending on the width of the window. That may be conf... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:18 CoCoA-5 Support #559: Release: CoCoA-5.1.0
Almost all done. still missing: gui on windows
Anna Maria Bigatti

25 Jun 2014

19:16 CoCoA-5 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
I tried; it compiled and all tests pass. Will test more tomorrow, and then check in.
John Abbott
17:04 CoCoA-5 Design #576 (In Progress): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
I believe the relevant source is in @Parser.C@ lines 2095-2103 inclusive.
I'll try commenting out, and see if everyt...
John Abbott
16:50 CoCoA-5 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
> Can we remove this "feature? What was the original reason for wanting this?
The original reason was to allow it ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:01 CoCoA-5 Design #576 (Closed): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?
Currently CoCoA-5 accepts juxtaposed string literals (_i.e._ separated by nothing or white space).
Can we remove t...
John Abbott
15:50 CoCoA-5 Bug #164 (Feedback): CoCoA-5 emacs interface bug (minor): Source & SourceRegion with troublesome filenames
I have modified @cocoa5.el@ to add escapes for @"@ and newlines inside filenames.
A quick test showed that it works a...
John Abbott
13:14 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
The name @RingWithID@ is longer than I would like; I originally suggested @ring(3)@ but that is not so clear. Maybe ... John Abbott
13:09 CoCoA-5 Support #548: Printing rings with ID
If we go with the idea of printing simply @RingWithID(...)@ then I presume the @describe@ command should fully descri... John Abbott
12:52 CoCoA-5 Bug #182 (In Progress): Unescaped double quote inside superstring
If I recall correctly, we abolished "superstrings" in CoCoA-5.1. So the problem is no longer relevant. In any case,... John Abbott
12:16 CoCoALib Feature #571 (Feedback): CmpAbs for RingElem
I have now added a new test, @test-RingElem4@, for @CmpAbs@ of @RingElem@. Will check in.
John Abbott

24 Jun 2014

10:36 CoCoA-5 Bug #279: Bug in Radical (actually a RingHom problem)
Here is an excerpt from CoCoA (this morning, 20140624)... John Abbott

23 Jun 2014

17:40 CoCoALib Feature #575 (In Progress): Investigate using cmake for configuration
Christof is still trying to make @cmake@ behave well on MacOS; both static and dynamic libraries give (different) pro... John Abbott
17:34 CoCoALib Feature #573: Use symbolic links for external libraries
The symbolic link approach now seems to be working -- I even tried with a nasty directory name apparently without mis... John Abbott

20 Jun 2014

15:00 CoCoALib Feature #575: Investigate using cmake for configuration
John Abbott wrote:
> *Bad* it is not clear how to specify a custom "installation" of GMP instead of the standard sys...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:18 CoCoALib Feature #575: Investigate using cmake for configuration
Christof has been investigating using @cmake@ for configuring normaliz/libnormaliz.
*Good* @cmake@ seems to handle...
John Abbott
09:10 CoCoALib Feature #575 (In Progress): Investigate using cmake for configuration
The @cmake@ program offers a platform independent "configuration" mechanism. In principle it could replace CoCoA's e... John Abbott

19 Jun 2014

17:53 CoCoALib Feature #573: Use symbolic links for external libraries
I thought I could be clever in @autoconf.mk@ and use @-lgsl@, @-lfrobby@ and so on.
*But* the linker does some strang...
John Abbott
17:00 CoCoALib Feature #573: Use symbolic links for external libraries
Here's a quite summary of the current situation (created entirely manually so far).
There's a new directory @configu...
John Abbott
15:27 CoCoALib Feature #573: Use symbolic links for external libraries
John Abbott wrote:
> I now think that the correct place for the external library directory is in @configuration/@.
...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:15 CoCoALib Feature #573 (In Progress): Use symbolic links for external libraries
I now think that the correct place for the external library directory is in @configuration/@.
It may as well be ca...
John Abbott
11:22 CoCoALib Support #574 (Closed): Tidy CoCoA root directory
There are too many files/directories in the CoCoA root directory.
I think we can remove the GPLv2 file since there i...
John Abbott

18 Jun 2014

12:03 CoCoALib Feature #573 (Closed): Use symbolic links for external libraries
To avoid problems with "awkward" path names to external libraries, I suggest creating symbolic links (with nice names... John Abbott

14 Jun 2014

21:43 CoCoALib Feature #568 (Feedback): Valid symbol heads
All done. It is also easier now to change which chars are allowed as 1st of symbol head, and which are allowed after... John Abbott
21:38 CoCoALib Feature #571: CmpAbs for RingElem
Implemented & documented; no test yet.
Checked in by commenting out the other changes in @ring.C@
John Abbott
21:24 CoCoALib Feature #571: CmpAbs for RingElem
I have added a test and doc for @CmpAbs@ for @BigRat@ John Abbott
21:21 CoCoALib Feature #571 (In Progress): CmpAbs for RingElem
I have now checked in an impl for @BigRat@.
I have an impl for @RingElem@ but cannot yet check in (mixed up with oth...
John Abbott
19:57 CoCoALib Design #572 (New): Split SparsePolyRing.H into two files? Problem with circular includes.
I was unable to add a @JBMill@ field to a SparsePolyRingIdeal because of circular includes.
One solution would be ...
John Abbott

13 Jun 2014

08:03 CoCoALib Design #415: Remove AsPolyRing etc?
John Abbott wrote:
> It would be handy to have a ctor for @RingElem@ which accepts a @RingBase*@ instead of a @ring@;...
Anna Maria Bigatti

12 Jun 2014

19:30 CoCoALib Design #415: Remove AsPolyRing etc?
Everything compiles & all tests pass :-)
It would be handy to have a ctor for @RingElem@ which accepts a @RingBase...
John Abbott
14:18 CoCoALib Feature #571: CmpAbs for RingElem
Make sense.
We should also do the same (when someone asks ;-) for other functions which can be extended from BigInt ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:54 CoCoALib Feature #571: CmpAbs for RingElem
The current impl works only for int/BigInt. Not for @BigRat@ John Abbott
12:53 CoCoALib Feature #571 (Closed): CmpAbs for RingElem
We have the fn @CmpAbs@ for @BigInt@ and @BigRat@.
Mario would like it also for @RingElem@ (when it is an ordered do...
John Abbott
12:41 CoCoALib Feature #570: Allow use of RingElem instead of ring in some functions (e.g. PPM, CoeffRing)
John Abbott wrote:
> which ring functions should be extended in this way?
I see this question in other terms: whi...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:30 CoCoALib Feature #570 (New): Allow use of RingElem instead of ring in some functions (e.g. PPM, CoeffRing)
Mario Albert said it would help make code shorter (and more readable) if one could write @PPM(f)@ instead of @PPM(own... John Abbott

11 Jun 2014

17:40 CoCoALib Design #415: Remove AsPolyRing etc?
I have managed to remove most of the need for @AsPolyRing@; will continue later this evening. John Abbott
16:04 CoCoALib Support #569 (New): Documentation for ReductionCog
The documentation for @ReductionCog@ need to be improved (and corrected?)
John Abbott
14:58 CoCoALib Feature #568: Valid symbol heads
John Abbott wrote:
> If we allow a wider range of heads, I suggest that any head may be indexed (rather than trying ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

10 Jun 2014

19:19 CoCoALib Feature #568: Valid symbol heads
If we allow a wider range of heads, I suggest that any head may be indexed (rather than trying to introduce some arca... John Abbott
19:15 CoCoALib Feature #568: Valid symbol heads
I modified Mario's copy of CoCoALib so that it would accept digits in symbol heads; everything seemed to work fine. ... John Abbott
19:13 CoCoALib Feature #568 (In Progress): Valid symbol heads
Mario has a fairly large database (several hundred entries) of polynomial sets which he wants to test using CoCoALib.... John Abbott
19:05 CoCoALib Feature #568 (Closed): Valid symbol heads
Currently symbol heads must start with a letter and contain letters and underscores.
Mario Albert would find it ve...
John Abbott
 

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