CoCoA

28 Sep 2022

15:16 CoCoA-5 Design #1698: indent: return a string?

I have modified the code for @indent@ (in @NotBuiltin.cpkg5@)
so that it returns a string.
The slow behaviour (is... John Abbott

15:04 CoCoALib Feature #127: Convert DUPFF code to C++

Upon rewriting, make sure that calls to @CheckForInterrupt@ are inserted. (see comment 11 of issue #718)
John Abbott

15:00 CoCoA-5 Bug #1604: SqFreeFactor crashes over non-perfect field

STATUS 2022-09-28:
The original failing cases are now apparently OK.
The example in comment 3 still incorrectly... John Abbott

12:37 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5

As far as I can tell, potential future licensing issues w.r.t. QCodeEdit are independent of the move to Qt5. Hence it... Ulrich von der Ohe

27 Sep 2022

22:36 CoCoA-5 Design #1698 (In Progress): indent: return a string?

If we choose not to return a string then, for the benefit of #750, the
function could anyway print to an @OpenOStrin... John Abbott

22:33 CoCoA-5 Design #1698 (Closed): indent: return a string?

To discuss:
Should *@indent@* return a string rather than print directly onto the standard output?
The main diffe... John Abbott

22:30 CoCoA-5 Bug #716 (In Progress): NotBuiltin.cpkg5: indent for MODULE

Can we document this behaviour (since I think it is not completely self-explanatory)?
Is @F@ the best name? Might... John Abbott

22:27 CoCoA-5 Slug #750 (In Progress): C5 GUI: very slow when printing many short lines

I created a single string containing many new lines: this printed instantly.... John Abbott

22:20 CoCoA-5 Support #1393: GUI with Qt5

I am tempted to release the code as-is.
The copyright question is important only if we want to make a non GPL releas... John Abbott

26 Sep 2022

20:39 CoCoALib Design #710: Update normaliz interface?

Status 2022-09-26: our code compiles fine with the current version of Normaliz (3.9.4).
What exactly is this issue... John Abbott

20:34 CoCoALib Feature #82 (Closed): C++11 compatibility questions

There is a big bold comment in the main descr saying that this issue has been superseded by #1225.
For this reason I... John Abbott

20:30 CoCoA-5 Feature #35: Optional warnings for fn-proc arity

The idea is reasonable, but I have doubts about its genuine utility.
Even the hypothetical use-cases are not very co... John Abbott

20:25 CoCoA-5 Bug #100: BringIn should map only the indets in its arg

Here is the status at 2022-09-26... John Abbott

16:13 CoCoA-5 Feature #461 (Rejected): New keyword "|->"? (same as "return")

Anna Maria Bigatti

16:13 CoCoA-5 Feature #461: New keyword "|->"? (same as "return")

John Abbott wrote:
> The idea is fairly nice, but does not bring much benefit.
> I do not relish the idea of modify... Anna Maria Bigatti

12:01 CoCoA-5 Feature #461: New keyword "|->"? (same as "return")

The idea is fairly nice, but does not bring much benefit.
I do not relish the idea of modifying the parser/interpret... John Abbott

12:05 CoCoALib Feature #1667 (In Progress): GBasis over ZZ: port to CoCoALib

A student (Khalil Loukhnati) worked on this last semester. He has produced working code.
It still needs considerabl... John Abbott

11:42 CoCoALib Support #59: List of all functions in CoCoALib

*OOPS: I thought this was about CoCoA-5*
Is there any progress on this issue? Redmine says it is 11 years old!
... John Abbott

15 Sep 2022

14:55 CoCoA-5 Design #1697: Specifying BOOST in configure

After discussions with Anna, we will try a new configure option *@--only-cocoalib@* (which supplants @--no-boost@).
... John Abbott

14:17 CoCoA-5 Design #1696 (Feedback): Which BOOST libs are actually needed?

Our tests seem to comfirm no problems (at least with recent BOOST, around 1.80).
We must update the doc.
John Abbott

14:14 CoCoALib Design #1685 (In Progress): RingBase::mySwap needed?

Oops: See comment 2 in issue #1682 [should have been here]
John Abbott

14:12 CoCoALib Design #1682 (In Progress): swap for new classes

There is an efficient @swap@ function for @RingElem@.
There is also a virtual mem fn @RingBase::mySwap@ which is d... John Abbott

14 Sep 2022

21:25 CoCoALib Feature #1694: New expv/exponents function?

I have checked in.
*It remains to consider and maybe update every call to @exponents@ (or @BigExponents@)*
John Abbott