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21 Apr 2022

19:33 CoCoALib Slug #1680: FloorLog2 or SizeInBase?
I had completely forgotten that we had created @SizeInBase@.
@FloorLog2@ is fairly quick, but @SizeInBase@ is instan...
John Abbott
19:30 CoCoALib Slug #1680 (Closed): FloorLog2 or SizeInBase?
In several places @FloorLog2@ is used to obtain a quick estimate of the
size of an integer; however, @SizeInBase@ is...
John Abbott

20 Apr 2022

21:49 CoCoA-5 Design #1679: BuiltinFunctions-GFan includes normaliz?!?
The point is that @BuiltinFunctions.H@ needs to know the classes defined in CoCoALib;
not sure if fwd decls would su...
John Abbott
21:47 CoCoA-5 Design #1679 (New): BuiltinFunctions-GFan includes normaliz?!?
When compiling CoCoA-5, I see that @BuiltinFunctions-GFan.C@ includes the normaliz headers.
This is via @BuiltinFunc...
John Abbott
11:37 CoCoALib Design #1678: Unsigned long for indexes (& sizes?)
I spoke to Anna yesterday about this. Naturally, she was uneasy about reversing a decision we made a long time ago.
...
John Abbott
11:30 CoCoALib Design #1678 (In Progress): Unsigned long for indexes (& sizes?)
So far we have avoided using @unsigned@ integer types, and recommend using just @long@.
I now have doubts about th...
John Abbott

13 Apr 2022

10:46 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
I am not entirely sure about the legal situation if we distribute the GUI
code which has licence GPLv3 along with c...
John Abbott

12 Apr 2022

17:27 CoCoALib Design #1677 (In Progress): release-source script: use shell globbing?
After discussion with Anna, I have now included the "preserve" flag when copying files to the "release" tree.
Anna...
John Abbott

10 Apr 2022

18:29 CoCoALib Design #1677: release-source script: use shell globbing?
The code Ulrich submitted used the @-p@ flag when copying.
This may be useful to indicate to people when files were ...
John Abbott
18:26 CoCoALib Design #1677 (In Progress): release-source script: use shell globbing?
How explicit should @release-source.sh@ be about which files it copies?
_e.g._ should we copy @*.C@ or should we...
John Abbott
18:23 CoCoALib Feature #1676: txt2tags: include in source distribution?
I have modified @release-source.sh@ so that it does not copy @txt2tags@.
John Abbott
11:28 CoCoALib Feature #1676 (In Progress): txt2tags: include in source distribution?
I have now modified the @Makefile@ so that it prints out a helpful message if @txt2tags@ is not found (saying where t... John Abbott
18:22 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
I have now modified @release-source.sh@ so that it copies also the GUI stuff.
Checked in. We still need to sort out...
John Abbott

07 Apr 2022

03:56 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
Ulrich von der Ohe wrote:
> It seems that many of the files needed to build the GUI are missing from the CoCoALib 0....
Ulrich von der Ohe

04 Apr 2022

15:01 CoCoALib Feature #1676: txt2tags: include in source distribution?
Just spoken to Anna about this.
The main advantage is that this would allow "developers" to rebuild the documentat...
John Abbott
14:55 CoCoALib Feature #1676 (Rejected): txt2tags: include in source distribution?
Should we include @txt2tags@ in the source distribution, so that developers can write (& check) documentation?
If ...
John Abbott

28 Mar 2022

12:43 CoCoA-5 Support #1675 (Closed): Version 5.4.0 requires Visual C++ Runtime 2013 on Windows
When I tried to run the newest CoCoA version on my Windows 10 machine I got the error messages "MSVCP120.dll not foun... Florian Walsh

25 Mar 2022

17:23 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
Ulrich von der Ohe wrote:
> I have a (for me) working version with txt2tags 3.4. All the files I changed (relative t...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:39 CoCoALib Support #1481: Release CoCoALib 0.99800
All is done now, except publishing the documentation (I'm still investigating some technical issues related to txt2ta... Anna Maria Bigatti

24 Mar 2022

19:30 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
John Abbott wrote:
> The main problem (for me) was that I had upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and this automatically upgra...
Ulrich von der Ohe
19:16 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
The main problem (for me) was that I had upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and this automatically upgraded @txt2tags@.
The n...
John Abbott
10:38 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Ulrich von der Ohe wrote:
> > do not make much sense and prohibit that the documentatio...
Ulrich von der Ohe
07:27 CoCoALib Bug #1662 (In Progress): txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
Ulrich von der Ohe wrote:
> do not make much sense and prohibit that the documentation is built.
This (for this r...
Anna Maria Bigatti
02:32 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
Regarding the new version of @doc/Makefile@ in the recent release CoCoALib 0.99800:
If a @$(TXT2TAGS)@ resides in ...
Ulrich von der Ohe
02:12 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5
It seems that many of the files needed to build the GUI are missing from the CoCoALib 0.99800 release (build system f... Ulrich von der Ohe
 

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