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25 May 2020

10:10 CoCoALib Design #1460: Name of TensorMat; change to KroneckerProd?
John Abbott wrote:
> Another matter is *where* to put the defn of the function.
> Currently @TensorMat@ is defined ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:32 CoCoALib Design #1460: Name of TensorMat; change to KroneckerProd?
Another matter is *where* to put the defn of the function.
Currently @TensorMat@ is defined in @MatrixSpecial.C@; I ...
John Abbott

23 May 2020

14:45 CoCoALib Design #1460: Name of TensorMat; change to KroneckerProd?
I re-implemented the fn because I had forgotten (or didn't realise) that it was already in CoCoALib.
At the very lea...
John Abbott
14:43 CoCoALib Design #1460 (Closed): Name of TensorMat; change to KroneckerProd?
CoCoALib has a function called @TensorMat@.
The operation is also known as *Kronecker product* of matrices. The wik...
John Abbott

20 May 2020

14:17 CoCoALib Feature #1395: SHA checksum for released code
John Abbott wrote:
> I see that the SHA cecksum is in the "version" column; I think it might be more readable in the...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:33 CoCoALib Feature #1395 (Feedback): SHA checksum for released code
I see that the SHA cecksum is in the "version" column; I think it might be more readable in the "notes" column.
Is t...
John Abbott
13:30 CoCoALib Support #1338 (Closed): Release CoCoALib-0.99700
We never officially released 0.99700 because issue #1449 came up just as we were about to announce.
So officially 0....
John Abbott
13:27 CoCoALib Support #1452 (Feedback): Release CoCoALib-0.99710
Anna should register her time on this issue, and then close it.
John Abbott
13:26 CoCoALib Bug #1449 (Closed): Bivariate factor bug: sometimes a factor is reducible
John Abbott

15 May 2020

13:56 CoCoA-5 Support #1111 (Closed): CoCoAManual: searching for ?? mat and for ?? matrix give different results
John Abbott wrote:
> What do you think? I suppose it would suffice to add *@matrix@* as a keyword...
As simple a...
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:11 CoCoA-5 Support #1111: CoCoAManual: searching for ?? mat and for ?? matrix give different results
I mostly agree. However, I wonder whether some results which appear under *@??mat@* should also appear under *@??mat... John Abbott
11:01 CoCoA-5 Support #1111 (Feedback): CoCoAManual: searching for ?? mat and for ?? matrix give different results
@? mat@ and @? matrix@ give the same result.
@?? blah@ means "all entries whose search keys contain blah", so I don'...
Anna Maria Bigatti

13 May 2020

10:30 CoCoA-5 Support #1459 (Resolved): Manual entries for mod and div
I have revised the manual entries, and think that they are clear and correct now. Checked in!
The final note about ...
John Abbott
10:00 CoCoA-5 Support #1459 (In Progress): Manual entries for mod and div
The two manual entries should be very similar; right now they are not.
Might it make sense to put them together? ...
John Abbott
09:58 CoCoA-5 Support #1459 (Closed): Manual entries for mod and div
The manual entries for *@mod@* and *@div@* should be consistent.
Currently they are not: @mod@ is correct, @div@ is ...
John Abbott

12 May 2020

14:32 CoCoA-5 Design #1453: Use symbolic links for release files
On MacOS a user can install software easily from a "dpkg" file.
It would be nice to have a single-file-install capab...
John Abbott
14:29 CoCoA-5 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website)
Someone (Abdelali ABOUHALI) recently (2020-05-11) asked for guidance installing CoCoA on Ubuntu.
This is what I an...
John Abbott

10 May 2020

12:14 CoCoALib Bug #1458 (In Progress): Redesign interrupt mechanism?
The problem lies in the design.
To avoid performing a potentially costly check too often, I copied the mechanism f...
John Abbott
12:06 CoCoALib Bug #1458 (Rejected): Redesign interrupt mechanism?
I have just made @SmoothFactor@ interruptible. Testing revealed disappointing performance.... John Abbott
11:57 CoCoALib Feature #1457 (In Progress): Make SmoothFactor interruptible
I have added the obvious call to @CheckForInterrupt@ in the main loop in @SmoothFactor@ (just for @BigInt@).
Testi...
John Abbott
11:54 CoCoALib Feature #1457 (Closed): Make SmoothFactor interruptible
The following is disappointingly slow:... John Abbott

07 May 2020

12:11 CoCoA-5 Support #1454: Filenames in release CoCoAManual/html containing [obsolete]
John Abbott wrote:
> An example is *@cmdCast[OBSOLETE].html@*
> Might it be better to use a name such as *@cmdCast-...
Anna Maria Bigatti

06 May 2020

11:30 CoCoA-5 Design #1456: IntersectList or IntersectionList
Probably one should be obsolescent?
Anna just added keyword to manual.
John Abbott
11:29 CoCoA-5 Design #1456 (New): IntersectList or IntersectionList
Why do we have both *@IntersectList@* and *@IntersectionList@*?
John Abbott

04 May 2020

16:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1455 (Closed): In a release: which files inside the CoCoAManual
Exactly which files should be in the directory *@CoCoAManual/@*?
Currently, there are @Makefile@ and @README@...
...
John Abbott
16:17 CoCoA-5 Support #1454: Filenames in release CoCoAManual/html containing [obsolete]
An example is *@cmdCast[OBSOLETE].html@*
On my linux box names with square brackets are printed out (by @ls@) insi...
John Abbott
16:14 CoCoA-5 Support #1454 (New): Filenames in release CoCoAManual/html containing [obsolete]
Currently files in @CoCoAManual/html/@ corresponding to obsolete/obsolescent commands have names containing square br... John Abbott

01 May 2020

05:52 CoCoA-5 Support #1450 (In Progress): Release CoCoA-5.3.2
Here are some notes about the MacOS (hidden) release:
* inside @CoCoA-5.3/CoCoAManual/@ there are @Makefile@ and @RE...
John Abbott

30 Apr 2020

17:28 CoCoA-5 Design #1453: Use symbolic links for release files
Just to remember: we already have pretty good scripts for configuration on Mac and on Linux. Anna Maria Bigatti
17:09 CoCoA-5 Design #1453: Use symbolic links for release files
We can do it anyway for Linux and MacOS. Hopefully someone will tell us how to do it for Microsoft.
A first idea ...
John Abbott
16:00 CoCoA-5 Design #1453: Use symbolic links for release files
John Abbott wrote:
> I may be difficult to do this on Microsoft?
This is the point: I have no clue how to make a ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:08 CoCoA-5 Design #1453: Use symbolic links for release files
Here is an excerpt from comment 13 of issue #990:
Here is a quick summary of what I think the installation "script...
John Abbott
15:05 CoCoA-5 Design #1453 (New): Use symbolic links for release files
It would be better for release files to be in fixed place, whose path name does not change with version number.
Curr...
John Abbott
16:02 CoCoA-5 Support #1451: CoCoA Manual: make search keys public
OK, postponed
...but at least / at last I've remembered to write this down!
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:51 CoCoA-5 Support #1451: CoCoA Manual: make search keys public
This might be a good idea -- I'm not sure yet.
I'd prefer to schedule it for 5.3.4 (rather than 5.3.2 which is very ...
John Abbott
14:43 CoCoA-5 Support #1451 (Closed): CoCoA Manual: make search keys public
Search keys used by "?" in CoCoA, are invisibile in pdf and html versions.
I think they could also be useful for th...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #1367 (Closed): CoCoA-5.3.0: release linked with more recent version of normaliz
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:44 CoCoA-5 Feature #1367: CoCoA-5.3.0: release linked with more recent version of normaliz
Anna: can you register the time spent on this, and then close the issue? I think it is due to be closed now, right? John Abbott
15:12 CoCoA-5 Support #1222 (Closed): Release CoCoA-5.3.0
This has been subsumed by the impending release of 5.3.2 which contains two important bug fixes.
Closing this issu...
John Abbott
14:43 CoCoA-5 Support #1222: Release CoCoA-5.3.0
Close because subsumed by issue #1450? John Abbott
15:10 CoCoA-5 Design #990 (Closed): CoCoA-5 distribution: tidying
The main part of this issue has been resolved adequately.
The idea in comment 13 has been moved to a new issue #14...
John Abbott
15:02 CoCoA-5 Support #1333 (Closed): Typevectors
John Abbott
14:57 CoCoALib Feature #1299 (Closed): New fn ConstantTerm?
John Abbott
14:46 CoCoALib Support #1452 (Closed): Release CoCoALib-0.99710
Everything related to making a CoCoALib release:

* Redmine Roadmap: close or postpone issue
* Redmine Release...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:34 CoCoA-5 Support #1450 (Closed): Release CoCoA-5.3.2
Everything for the release
CHECK FOR BUGS
Compile with *@--debug@* flag, and check that everything runs O...
Anna Maria Bigatti

26 Apr 2020

19:57 CoCoALib Bug #1449: Bivariate factor bug: sometimes a factor is reducible
Added test to @src/tests/test-bug1.C@ John Abbott
19:43 CoCoALib Bug #1449: Bivariate factor bug: sometimes a factor is reducible
Added test to exbugs.cocoa5.
John Abbott
 

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