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From 19 Jan 2020 to 17 Feb 2020
17 Feb 2020
- 18:15 CoCoALib Design #1346: C++14: use the new for loop syntax where appropriate (like cocoa's foreach)
- I have changed some @for@ loops to use the new syntax.
It is slightly worrying that one can change the code so easil... - 16:14 CoCoALib Feature #1419 (New): DynamicBitset::IamAll1s
- A challenge for Anna: can you write @DynamicBitSet::IamAll1s@ using the new "range-based" for loop syntax?
- 15:18 CoCoA-5 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... - 15:10 CoCoA-5 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... - 14:54 CoCoA-5 Support #1387: John's visit Feb 2020
- Visit is over. We managed to do most things :-)
Closing. - 14:51 CoCoA-5 Feature #1316 (Feedback): Matrix row reduction (rref)
- Removed old impl. Added doc and test.
- 13:59 CoCoA-5 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.
- 13:58 CoCoA-5 Support #177: CoCoAManual: General part of the documentation is obsolete: update?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.
- 13:55 CoCoA-5 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...
- 12:29 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
- My idea in comment 8 is not so clever... well, the SHA cannot be inside the TGZ file.
Just put it on the website in ...
15 Feb 2020
- 23:52 CoCoA-5 Bug #1335 (Feedback): ManExamples: some problems
- The current state is that only the entries for *@OpenSocket@*, *@ReloadMan@* and *@SystemCommand@* report errors.
I ... - 23:44 CoCoALib Bug #1264 (Feedback): Remove unnecessary files before making CoCoALib release TGZ files
- I have now added the related issue (#990) for the targz file for the binary release.
I suppose we should do a fina... - 23:41 CoCoA-5 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:
... - 15:13 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- There is a similar line in @myTestIsPrimary_0dim@ (around line 252).
Make the same change there???
- 10:42 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
- -A fairly simple approach would be to put the SHA checksum in the release notes- (perhaps near the start?) *<--- BAD...
- 10:35 CoCoA-5 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.
- 10:34 CoCoA-5 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?
- 10:30 CoCoA-5 Support #1418 (New): Manual entry for NewPolyRing
- Make the manual entry for *@NewPolyRing@* easier to understand.
- 10:28 CoCoA-5 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.
- 10:23 CoCoA-5 Feature #1372: New function: find ?
- @find@ may also behave in a "slightly unexpected" way:...
14 Feb 2020
- 17:35 CoCoA-5 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...
- 17:27 CoCoA-5 Support #1386 (Closed): IsIndetPosPower: behaviour and manual page
- Now it gives @false@.
Added test to @test-bug3.C@.
- 17:10 CoCoA-5 Bug #1286 (Closed): Website: trouble with the world map
- 16:10 CoCoALib Feature #1417: RadicalZeroDim with extra parameter for GBasis timeout
- This is related but not quite the same as #1378.
The point is this: if we let more time to compute the partial GBase... - 16:05 CoCoALib Feature #1417 (In Progress): RadicalZeroDim with extra parameter for GBasis timeout
- We have seen how changing the timeout for GBasis can affect the time dramatically.
Should we make a function @Radica... - 15:38 CoCoALib Slug #1375: Radical 0-dim: varied timings
- Now the problem is: which time limit to give to GBasis computations?
Currently there is "variable bound" + "fixed ... - 14:01 CoCoALib Design #1391 (Resolved): RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
- Made it more robust with empty list.
- 13:51 CoCoA-5 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. - 13:43 CoCoA-5 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.
- 13:26 CoCoALib Feature #91: Return type & name for "indets" of a PP
- The name is now *@IndetsIn@* the same name for the analogous fn for @RingElem@.
- 11:01 CoCoALib Bug #1264: Remove unnecessary files before making CoCoALib release TGZ files
- Anna tried her script for making a source code TGZ file. We found just 3 spurious files: these have been removed.
I... - 10:58 CoCoALib Design #1409 (Closed): myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- Appears to work now. Closing.
- 10:54 CoCoA-5 Support #1311 (Closed): THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019
- 10:53 CoCoA-5 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?
- 10:50 CoCoA-5 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... - 10:48 CoCoA-5 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.
- 10:48 CoCoA-5 Support #1315 (Closed): Manual entry about reporting bugs?
- final minor polishing.
- 10:21 CoCoALib Feature #966 (Closed): New function or explain: first and last for a vector?
- I have moved the example into a new file *@ex-c++-vector2.C@* which illustrates how to "translate" the CoCoA-5 functi...
- 09:33 CoCoALib Bug #1416: IdealOfProjectivePoints and MinGens
- and this doesn't....
- 09:18 CoCoALib Bug #1416 (In Progress): IdealOfProjectivePoints and MinGens
- The following works:...
- 09:00 CoCoALib Bug #1416 (Closed): IdealOfProjectivePoints and MinGens
- Juan Migliore found this weird bug:...
- 09:22 CoCoA-5 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... - 09:08 CoCoA-5 Support #1344 (Rejected): Clean out OBSOLESCENT
- Anna assumes henceforth *TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY* for @obsolescent.cpkg5@.
She wants to extend it until eternity. Go...
13 Feb 2020
- 18:59 CoCoA-5 Bug #1408 (Closed): CoCoAManual - tex: error if syntax is missing
- 17:46 CoCoALib Feature #91 (Closed): Return type & name for "indets" of a PP
- This has already been done, apparently.
There is a fn called *@indets@* which returns a @vector<long>@ being a list ... - 17:22 CoCoA-5 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.
... - 17:17 CoCoA-5 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...
- 16:39 CoCoA-5 Feature #673 (Closed): Error message: I was expecting...
- Seems OK now. No doubt the school in Vietnam will be an "interesting" proving ground.
Closing.
- 16:37 CoCoA-5 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...
- 16:30 CoCoA-5 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...
- 16:21 CoCoALib Design #1346: C++14: use the new for loop syntax where appropriate (like cocoa's foreach)
- I looked for @iterator@ and changed in a few more files. (can't remember which)
Not so many left to do. - 16:09 CoCoA-5 Bug #1385 (Closed): valgrind: reports 456byte leak
- 16:08 CoCoA-5 Design #474: Eliminate package BinRepr
- Not necessary for this release. The remaining fns should be ported to C++; then we can elim the package.
- 16:04 CoCoA-5 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.
- 15:50 CoCoA-5 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... - 15:44 CoCoA-5 Support #1368 (Closed): Improve manual for mod
- 15:40 CoCoA-5 Design #1352 (Closed): cocoa5 (launch) script: sleep time
- 15:40 CoCoA-5 Feature #1410 (Closed): IsDivisible also for INT
- manual done
- 10:19 CoCoA-5 Feature #1410: IsDivisible also for INT
- done...
- 15:36 CoCoA-5 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...
- 15:29 CoCoA-5 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...
- 15:27 CoCoA-5 Feature #1415 (In Progress): thmproving package
- Port old CoCoA-4 package *@thmproving@* to CoCoA-5.
- 15:09 CoCoALib Feature #658 (Closed): Indets actually in a poly (or vector or matrix)
- Implemented *@IndetsProd@* -- advantage is that it gives same interface in CoCoALib as in CoCoA-5. *@IndetsIn@* is a...
- 14:24 CoCoALib Feature #658: Indets actually in a poly (or vector or matrix)
- After discussing with Anna, she wants the result to be a polynomial (which is a 1-monomial) whose value is the produc...
- 14:08 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
- Anna confirms that she has @shasum@ on her computer.
The main question remaining is how to use the SHA sum in a se... - 14:04 CoCoA-5 Bug #1412: Emacs UI: font size
- See comment 6 in issue #1358. I think it might be relevant here.
- 14:03 CoCoA-5 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.
- 11:12 CoCoALib Support #26: Redmine Administration
- It would be helpful to have a short "manual" for redmine which explains how to do some operations (_e.g._ create a ne...
- 11:06 CoCoALib Support #1353 (Closed): configure script help
- Anna finds current @--help@ doc acceptable. Closing.
*NOTE* the help will almost certainly change when #1360 is i... - 10:55 CoCoALib Support #1338 (In Progress): Release CoCoALib-0.99700
- 10:30 CoCoALib Bug #935 (Closed): ElimMat, ElimHomogMat: complain about zero or negative weights
- The code calls @IsNonNegGrading@ (see @MatrixForOrdering.C@ around lines 959 and 973).
I presume @IsNonNegGrading@ ... - 10:09 CoCoA-5 Bug #1230 (Closed): PrimaryDecomposition with lex ordering
- I have added the example to @exbugs.cocoa5@
Closing!
- 09:25 CoCoA-5 Bug #1230 (Feedback): PrimaryDecomposition with lex ordering
- Seems to work now.
We did not note how we fixed the problem in comment 5. :-/
closing? - 10:09 CoCoALib Feature #958: New function: multiplicity and dim
- Yet to be fixed: non homogeneous input.
(postponed again) - 09:35 CoCoA-5 Design #1327 (Closed): Inconvenient PolyRingHom, PolyAlgebraHom
- 09:30 CoCoA-5 Bug #1383 (Closed): NewPolyRing on MS Windows
- 09:29 CoCoA-5 Bug #1384 (Closed): NewPolyRing and SymbolRange
- 09:26 CoCoA-5 Bug #1273 (Closed): NewPolyRing and SymbolRange together make a crash
12 Feb 2020
- 18:17 CoCoALib Design #1184 (Closed): should BeginIter(RingElem) be in SparsePolyIter or in SparsePolyOps-RingElem?
- 16:39 CoCoALib Design #1184 (Feedback): should BeginIter(RingElem) be in SparsePolyIter or in SparsePolyOps-RingElem?
- 15:49 CoCoALib Design #1184: should BeginIter(RingElem) be in SparsePolyIter or in SparsePolyOps-RingElem?
- I checked. The class declaration is in @SparsePolyIter.H@.
There are only to functions defined in @SparsePolyOps-Ri... - 18:14 CoCoALib Bug #1362 (Closed): GBasis verbose mode: some output is on cerr/clog
- Removed all calls to clog. Replaced with VERBOSE.
- 16:35 CoCoALib Design #854: Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
- The name was changed about 4 years ago (late 2015 or early 2016).
The name @MakeTermOrdMat@ is more sensible; we w... - 16:28 CoCoALib Support #613: Which ubuntu / debian packages are needed to compile CoCoA
- This info is useful for people who want to download the source and compile; it is not necessary for the imminent rele...
- 16:16 CoCoALib Bug #1260 (Closed): Fix file permissions after using CVS
- When should we run the script?
It would be nice if it could be run automatically (and "often"), but it cannot really... - 16:11 CoCoALib Support #1161 (Closed): Split NumTheory.C into several smaller files
- 16:11 CoCoALib Design #1326: Modify function myElim so that it returns ideal? (not quite)
- I prefer to create a new ideal, and not to change the existing one.
Note that an exception-safe impl almost certai... - 15:57 CoCoALib Design #1366 (Closed): Should configure remove the file ERR_MESGS if it’s empty?
- At some point I put in the @trap@ command. It seems to have worked OK for the last month or so.
Closing.
- 15:49 CoCoALib Support #1263: Tidy CoCoALib test directory
- I have merged @test-bug5@ into @test-bug2@ and @test-bug4@ into @test-bug3@.
*SPEED CHECK* compilation of all tes... - 15:35 CoCoALib Design #849: Cleanup MinPoly code
- After so much time I think "Why bother?". Mathematically it is nice and clean, practically it is next to pointless, ...
- 15:26 CoCoALib Feature #1277 (Closed): Gaussian row reduction
- I have added a test to @test-matrix2.C@.
- 15:17 CoCoALib Feature #1277 (Feedback): Gaussian row reduction
- Now documented. CoCoALib and CoCoA-5.
Do we really need a test?
- 15:00 CoCoALib Bug #2 (Closed): Makefile problem in ROOT and/or src/AlgebraicCore
- I have rearranged the root @Makefile@: there is a new phony target @before-compiling@ which builds @include/CoCoA/lib...
- 14:46 CoCoALib Bug #2: Makefile problem in ROOT and/or src/AlgebraicCore
- Here is a *bad idea*: in the root @Makefile@ I simply removed the dependency of @check@ on @library@. This _does not...
- 14:51 CoCoALib Design #1414 (In Progress): Make class RingElemVector?
- I have a personal test implementation called @ex-RingElemVector.C@
- 14:49 CoCoALib Design #1414 (In Progress): Make class RingElemVector?
- Should we implement a class for list/vector of RingElem, all guaranteed to be in hte same ring? (a bit like PPVector)...
- 14:43 CoCoALib Feature #357 (Rejected): Constructor for vectors? CoCoAVector
- Discussed in person, and agreed to *reject* it.
- 09:35 CoCoALib Slug #1238 (Closed): ReadExpr is too slow on long lists of monomial with many indets: ---> use RingElems instead
- checked-in.
- 09:07 CoCoALib Slug #1238 (Feedback): ReadExpr is too slow on long lists of monomial with many indets: ---> use RingElems instead
- 08:48 CoCoALib Design #1409: myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- Fixed all functions @myTest...@ so that they return void.
Now the compiler should help if something is not done prop...
11 Feb 2020
- 18:33 CoCoALib Bug #1402 (Closed): gfan: installation problem: configure reports cdd.h present but cannot be compiled
- The warning seems to be harmless: it worked on my Linux box, and it works on Anna's Mac despite the warnings.
We d... - 18:31 CoCoALib Design #1346: C++14: use the new for loop syntax where appropriate (like cocoa's foreach)
- worked on TmpGReductor: much more readable!!!
- 18:28 CoCoALib Bug #1308 (Closed): test-GFan1 fails
- Annd and I spent quite a long time getting the latest versions of CDD and GFAN to compile, and work with CoCoALib.
A... - 18:09 CoCoALib Bug #1362 (Feedback): GBasis verbose mode: some output is on cerr/clog
- Anna has changed all prints in @TmpGReductors@ to use the stream produced by @VerboseLog@.
Compiles & all tests pa... - 18:07 CoCoALib Slug #969 (Closed): Output to bad stream (operator<< and myOutput): just return immediately
- I have decided also to put "short-cuts" for bad ostreams inside the mem fns which produce output.
This is not really... - 13:13 CoCoALib Design #1413 (Closed): configure script: MODE option obsolete?
- After discussing with Anna, I have removed the obsolete option *@--mode@*.
- 12:41 CoCoALib Design #1413 (Closed): configure script: MODE option obsolete?
- The help for @configure@ says there is a *@--mode@* option, but looking at the code in the @configure@ script, it see...
- 12:22 CoCoALib Bug #1319 (Closed): Problem rebuilding dependencies when file PREPROCESSOR_DEFNS.H does not exist
- 12:09 CoCoALib Design #1377 (Closed): CpuTimeLimit: limit "intervals" between full checks
- Improved doc with Anna's help. Closing.
07 Feb 2020
- 12:19 CoCoALib Slug #1394: Oddly slow GBasis computation (slow final cleanup)
- Here is another example (with *@DegRevLex@*). The "Final clean up" consumes 99% of the time!...
06 Feb 2020
- 18:45 CoCoA-5 Bug #1412: Emacs UI: font size
- same here!
- 16:14 CoCoA-5 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...
05 Feb 2020
- 22:48 CoCoA-5 Bug #1412: Emacs UI: font size
- On my computer it keeps the big fonts.
Both on emacs-24 and emacs-26. - 22:02 CoCoA-5 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... - 14:12 CoCoA-5 Feature #1236: Add "socket" devices
- I have made the manual entry better (I hope!)
- 13:35 CoCoALib Design #1409: myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- I like the suggestion to change the fn to *@void@*. Still we should discuss it when I'm there.
Also we should look ...
04 Feb 2020
- 13:48 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
- Florian has reported a problem with our being "naughty" about making a new release without changing the version numbe...
- 13:38 CoCoALib Design #1409: myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- The corrected code should be in 0.99700.
We should discuss the design when I'm in Genoa. Maybe we can finish this f... - 13:35 CoCoA-5 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...
03 Feb 2020
- 17:47 CoCoA-5 Bug #1408 (Feedback): CoCoAManual - tex: error if syntax is missing
- done. checked-in.
- 15:08 CoCoA-5 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...
- 11:32 CoCoA-5 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 ...
- 16:03 CoCoA-5 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... - 15:48 CoCoA-5 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, ... - 13:42 CoCoA-5 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...
- 13:40 CoCoA-5 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... - 15:42 CoCoALib Bug #1411 (Closed): IsPrimary sometimes wrong
- This was a duplicate of #1409; server problems in Genoa meant I didn't know/notice that Anna had already resolved thi...
- 14:43 CoCoALib Bug #1411 (Resolved): IsPrimary sometimes wrong
- I think it is OK now.
The problem was in @SparsePolyOps-ideal-ZeroDim.C@ around line 295. The result was computed... - 13:45 CoCoALib Bug #1411 (Closed): IsPrimary sometimes wrong
- The @IsPrimary@ sometimes gives a wrong result.
Here is an instance:... - 15:39 CoCoALib Design #1409 (In Progress): myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- I fixed this as well. Anyway, we can merge when I'm in Italy (hopefully).
I agree that the use of @myAssignPrimar... - 13:21 CoCoALib Design #1409: myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- I added the test to @exbugs.cocoa5@
- 13:20 CoCoALib Design #1409: myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- This was the error, found by Ashkan Nikseresht (nice feedback! thanks!)...
- 12:58 CoCoALib Design #1409 (Closed): myTestIsPrimary & Co. : fix design
- I spent a few hours fixing a bug in...
31 Jan 2020
- 13:57 CoCoA-5 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... - 11:25 CoCoA-5 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...
- 10:46 CoCoA-5 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... - 10:29 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
- I suppose the GPG signatures give a better guarantee of correctness.
Probably we should try both ways, and see how...
30 Jan 2020
- 14:14 CoCoA-5 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...
29 Jan 2020
- 22:24 CoCoALib Bug #986 (In Progress): GFan: require version newer than 0.6
- *2020-01-28* I have written to Anders. He is willing to put a @GFANLIB_VERSION@ CPP macro in future versions (starti...
- 12:07 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
- I have just stumbled across "GPG" signatures for software. There is a description at @https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/m...
28 Jan 2020
- 15:56 CoCoA-5 Bug #1406 (New): Poor memory management?
- I tried something like the following:...
- 15:46 CoCoALib Feature #1405: New fn: interreduction
- Julian already has an impl which works for him/
We should decide exact semantics and API.
*After* Vietnam!
- 15:45 CoCoALib Feature #1405 (Closed): New fn: interreduction
- Add a new function to perform interreduction of a list of polys.
Julian already has an impl.
- 15:20 CoCoA-5 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.
- 14:41 CoCoA-5 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 ...
- 14:26 CoCoA-5 Support #1404 (Closed): Which commands should "terms" be a keyword for?
- What do you expect the CoCoA-5 manual to respond to the query:...
- 11:57 CoCoA-5 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... - 10:54 CoCoA-5 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...
- 10:29 CoCoA-5 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... - 10:15 CoCoA-5 Bug #1384 (Feedback): NewPolyRing and SymbolRange
27 Jan 2020
- 18:03 CoCoALib Support #613: Which ubuntu / debian packages are needed to compile CoCoA
- We should check the situation, and add appropriate advice in the release notes!
- 17:58 CoCoALib Feature #4 (Rejected): Squarefree GCD-free basis
- I am rejecting this issue.
The "squarefree" part is too risky/costly for large integer args.
It could be done for p... - 17:55 CoCoALib Bug #2 (Resolved): Makefile problem in ROOT and/or src/AlgebraicCore
- It still happens -- in a sense.
It is not really harmful; just a bit annoying.
If I do @make lib@ then it compi... - 17:48 CoCoALib Design #854 (In Progress): Function MakeTermOrd should be renamed MakeTermOrdMat?
- Currently we have @MakeTermOrd@ both in CoCoALib and CoCoA-5.
Acceptable? Close?
Last comment was 2 years ago.
- 17:43 CoCoALib Bug #736 (Closed): QuotientRing: is it correct to prohibit quotient by ideal(1)?
- This was presumably done about 4 years ago, but we forgot to close the issue...
Closing now.
- 17:35 CoCoALib Slug #722: valuation slow for large inputs
- The timings on my current machine (Fujitsu) are:
@FactorMultiplicity(2, N)@ about 16s
@FactorMultiplicity(5, N)@ ... - 17:30 CoCoALib Support #256: Improve doc about ordering/grading for poly rings
- It would be nice to finish this issue... possible for 0.99700?
[not really urgent, but its has been lingering for a ... - 15:40 CoCoALib Support #618: Instructions for compiling libnormaliz
- Here is what I did:...
- 15:32 CoCoALib Design #769: CoCoALib cone
- What is the status of this issue? Can we close it?
- 15:25 CoCoALib Design #932 (Closed): CoCoALib configuration: BOOST dependency
- Since we moved to C++11/C++14 we can use an atomic C++ counter instead of the threadsafe code; so I have already dele...
26 Jan 2020
- 15:50 CoCoALib Support #1161 (Feedback): Split NumTheory.C into several smaller files
- Now I think this is done:...
- 09:53 CoCoALib Support #26: Redmine Administration
- Should we close this issue? Is it quite old, and I think we have learned to use redmine reasonably well.
Accordin... - 09:44 CoCoALib Slug #969 (Feedback): Output to bad stream (operator<< and myOutput): just return immediately
- Here is a simple program I have used for testing (just printing of @BigInt@):...
25 Jan 2020
- 15:35 CoCoALib Design #849: Cleanup MinPoly code
- Better to postpone this?
- 15:29 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- Any progress here?
I have noticed many files still do not have Abbott and Bigatti as copyright holders; I usually ... - 15:26 CoCoALib Feature #658 (Resolved): Indets actually in a poly (or vector or matrix)
- Comment 18 about says that I have checked the code in (seems to be true!)
*Still no doc; and probably no examples.*
- 15:20 CoCoALib Design #1391: RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
- The issue about allowing @[...]@ or not is similar (in my mind) to the issue about a semicolon at the end *@ReadExprS...
24 Jan 2020
- 22:34 CoCoALib Bug #1308 (Feedback): test-GFan1 fails
- I blindly followed the advice in the error mesg, and now it seems to work.
Checking in :-)
- 17:23 CoCoALib Bug #1308: test-GFan1 fails
- I was lucky 5 month ago... now I cannot even compile gfanlib. @configure@ fails :-(
- 22:10 CoCoALib Bug #1402 (Resolved): gfan: installation problem: configure reports cdd.h present but cannot be compiled
- Now CoCoALib compiles with GFan, but @test-GFan1@ give the same problem as mentioned in #1308.
- 22:03 CoCoALib Bug #1402 (In Progress): gfan: installation problem: configure reports cdd.h present but cannot be compiled
- It seems that @configure@ was giving just a warning (which is probably not a good sign). Anyway, it also created the...
- 17:26 CoCoALib Bug #1402 (Closed): gfan: installation problem: configure reports cdd.h present but cannot be compiled
- I have installed @cddlib-094j@, or so I believe -- a header file reports 0.94i as the version.
I then tried:
<pre... - 21:32 CoCoA-5 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 ... - 15:00 CoCoA-5 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 ... - 14:59 CoCoA-5 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... - 21:20 CoCoA-5 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...
- 17:54 CoCoA-5 Bug #1403: RingID: remove this function?
- Maybe we should change the doc to say that people should not normally us this function?
- 17:52 CoCoA-5 Bug #1403 (In Progress): RingID: remove this function?
- Long completely fails to understand why this function should not be used.
Delete it?
- 15:53 CoCoA-5 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
- Here is what I get currently:...
- 11:41 CoCoA-5 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 ... - 11:32 CoCoA-5 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...
23 Jan 2020
- 17:32 CoCoA-5 Feature #1399: CoCoA-5 interpreter: idle/busy indicator
- Perhaps the relevant function is @Interpreter::readAndExecute@, not sure though... (too busy with other stuff curren...
- 15:05 CoCoA-5 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...
22 Jan 2020
- 15:01 CoCoA-5 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...
- 09:58 CoCoA-5 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... - 13:53 CoCoA-5 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...
- 13:49 CoCoA-5 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?
- 10:46 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397 (In Progress): Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
- The problem is in the constructor (I think)...
- 10:07 CoCoA-5 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....
- 10:03 CoCoA-5 Bug #1397: Crashes if CoCoAHelp.xml is missing
- ouch!
it should never happen, really.
But it is *bad*. I'll fixi it.
21 Jan 2020
- 20:36 CoCoA-5 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 ...
- 20:24 CoCoA-5 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... - 20:22 CoCoA-5 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...
- 20:21 CoCoA-5 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... - 15:33 CoCoA-5 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...
19 Jan 2020
- 10:56 CoCoA-5 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... - 10:52 CoCoA-5 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... - 10:47 CoCoA-5 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...
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