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From 11 Feb 2023 to 12 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023
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18:04 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
- About a year ago, I created a PR on their repo (https://github.com/txt2tags/txt2tags/pull/244) targeting the v2 branc...
11 Mar 2023
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12:29 CoCoALib Design #1628: Unused variables, params, data members
- Several functions have an unused parameter @CheckForTimeout@.
It would be nice to activate the time-out for these fn...
10 Mar 2023
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19:17 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- John Abbott wrote:
> I think we can close this.
> The code by Arri is destined to be removed before too long (and n... -
18:29 CoCoA-5 Design #1075: LaTeX package: power-product printing
- John Abbott wrote:
> I like the suggestion of putting a backslash in front of all long indet names:
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17:31 CoCoA-5 Design #1075: LaTeX package: power-product printing
- I am a little unhappy about @\!\:@ which does look rather ugly.
Maybe it is OK if (at least) one of the indets does... -
17:28 CoCoA-5 Design #1075 (Resolved): LaTeX package: power-product printing
- I like the suggestion of putting a backslash in front of all long indet names:
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17:48 CoCoALib Feature #718 (Resolved): Insert calls to CheckForInterrupt
- I do this whenever I encounter a case which is not yet covered.
I think most cases are now covered. Hence 90%. But... -
17:46 CoCoALib Slug #1557 (Closed): Reading list of rationals is too slow
- This is not so important. Yes, it is strange that CoCoA-5 can read the input so fast... but it is not important.
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17:08 CoCoA-5 Feature #7 (Resolved): Automatic mapping between (some) rings
- What is the status of this issue?
I thought it was almost finished.
09 Mar 2023
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23:11 CoCoA-5 Design #635 (Feedback): Automatic mapping of RingElem (in operation with a compound value)
- I have changed the err mesg to be more comprehensible: "automatic" instead of "auto".
I think we can close this is... -
23:03 CoCoA-5 Slug #948 (Feedback): radical is slow (compared to singular) on these examples
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22:57 CoCoA-5 Support #1077: Manual: remove old stuff about "devices"
- Shall I just do this?
Any objections?
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22:56 CoCoA-5 Design #1477 (Feedback): Packages: questions from Andraschko
- Current state (2023-03-09):
*(A)* and *(B)* and *(C)* have effectively been solved.
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22:45 CoCoA-5 Feature #1246 (Feedback): Revive old CoCoA4 package called "cocoa5.cpkg"
- Is there any news from Passau about this issue?
Is there an improved version of *@OperationCommunication.cpkg5@*?
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22:42 CoCoA-5 Bug #1695 (Closed): boost-find-lib.sh
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22:41 CoCoA-5 Design #1696 (Closed): Which BOOST libs are actually needed?
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22:39 CoCoA-5 Feature #1718 (Feedback): FactorINT with time-out
- No one objected to *@FactorINT_TimeOut@*.
I wonder if *@GBasisTimeout@* should be renamed to *@GBasis_TimeOut@* -- w... -
22:37 CoCoALib Bug #1719 (Feedback): FactorINT has got worse
- The current code works a lot better.
I suppose I should find time sooner or later to *implement the idea in comment ... -
22:25 CoCoALib Feature #1488: BuiltIn Interreduce-Function
- *Anna?*
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22:23 CoCoALib Design #1689 (Closed): Automatic mapping of RHS in += etc
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22:15 CoCoALib Feature #800 (Closed): PPMonoidSparse: impl of sparse PPs
- It make sense to close this issue, and let issue #842 deal with the disappointing execution speed.
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22:11 CoCoALib Support #1265 (Resolved): Unregistered TXT files in doc
- The only remaining case is *@SparsePolyOps.txt@* which is almost empty...
*BUT* there are several other files *@Spar... -
22:01 CoCoALib Support #26: Redmine Administration
- *Anna:* could you produce a short user-guide for redmine.
I think it will be useful for both of us!
Not sure where... -
21:58 CoCoALib Bug #536 (Closed): Make RingBase::myCharacteristic a fn rather than a proc
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21:57 CoCoALib Feature #253 (Resolved): W.Bruns's wish list
- Shall we close this very old issue? Most of its children have been completed.
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21:53 CoCoALib Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- I think we can close this.
The code by Arri is destined to be removed before too long (and no one is maintaining it)... -
21:50 CoCoALib Bug #1522 (Closed): SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
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21:48 CoCoALib Feature #1694 (Closed): New expv/exponents function?
- I have cleaned up all calls which I think needed cleaning.
*Observation:* I thought it was odd that @exponents(exp... -
21:41 CoCoA-5 Support #1675: Version 5.4.0 requires Visual C++ Runtime 2013 on Windows
- I have analysed version 5.4.0 and my currently installed CoCoA version (5.4.1k), compiled on 24 Feb 2023 at 09:59:49 ...
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21:07 CoCoALib Bug #1712: Windows: New configuration script
- Thanks for the update! Yes, I will be able to compile it whenever you want.
I will also try to remove the limitation... -
20:55 CoCoALib Bug #1712: Windows: New configuration script
- We are hoping to make a new official release in the next few days (probably early next week).
*@Nico:* Will you be a... -
20:49 CoCoALib Bug #1725 (Closed): resultant: gives wrong answer when should be 0
- I have some doubts about correct @SubresultanSeq@ is... it seemed to contain a 0 for one test input (now forgotten).
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20:16 CoCoALib Bug #1726 (In Progress): Dangling references to temporaries
- I am still perplexed by these warnings. I'm pretty sure the code is safe: all it is doing is giving a convenient sho...
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09:43 CoCoALib Bug #1726: Dangling references to temporaries
- Thanks for letting us know! We are about to release a new version of CoCoA... hopefully tomorrow or early next week....
08 Mar 2023
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21:57 CoCoALib Bug #1726 (Closed): Dangling references to temporaries
- The Fedora Linux project has built all packages with GCC 13, which will be released soon. I see warnings of this for...
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21:37 CoCoALib Bug #1522 (Feedback): SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- I'm not convinced the test in comment 12 is really a good test.
Anyway, i have reproduced results which suggest that... -
21:13 CoCoALib Slug #1337 (In Progress): PrimaryDecomposition: a interesting/pathological example
- 2023-03-08 I have just run the example (on my current GNU/Linux box).
The times are: 0.33s and 499s (ouch! slow... -
20:52 CoCoALib Design #1689 (In Progress): Automatic mapping of RHS in += etc
- The current impl gives an error if the LHS would be promoted.
I am inclined to accept this impl, and close this issu... -
20:29 CoCoALib Bug #536 (Feedback): Make RingBase::myCharacteristic a fn rather than a proc
- I have made the change. I really cannot see a sane use-case where @characteristic@ needs to be super efficient.
I h... -
19:48 CoCoALib Bug #1662: txt2tags: problem with filenames containing "_" or "-"
- What is the status of this issue? Is it advanced enough that we can close this week? (I hope so)
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19:44 CoCoALib Support #59: List of all functions in CoCoALib
- I think the documentation for CoCoALib needs a major overhaul...
Something similar to what we have made for CoCoA-5 ...
07 Mar 2023
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21:00 CoCoALib Feature #1360 (Closed): configure script: add flags for "only cocoalib" or "both cocoalib and cocoa5" (for boost)
- I'm closing this issue -- I think it has become too long (20 comments).
The current @configure@ script is definitely... -
20:55 CoCoALib Bug #1710 (Closed): IsSqFree, IsIrred bugs in ZZ[x] and QQ[x]
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20:54 CoCoALib Feature #1694: New expv/exponents function?
- Let's discuss this issue. I hope we can close it this week!
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20:51 CoCoALib Support #1265: Unregistered TXT files in doc
- Let's discuss this issue. I hope we can resolve it this week.
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20:49 CoCoALib Support #1263: Tidy CoCoALib test directory
- It would be nice to close this issue... I have decided to postpone it, since it likely requires some discussion.
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20:38 CoCoALib Design #1572: Use noexcept
- Postponing to have more time to discuss & think; also there is not enough time to make the checks implied by the last...
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20:36 CoCoALib Design #1572: Use noexcept
- *Point 1*
As in the previous comment: for fns which use @CoCoA_ASSERT@ we can now write something like... -
20:27 CoCoALib Feature #1723 (Closed): New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
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20:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1675: Version 5.4.0 requires Visual C++ Runtime 2013 on Windows
- We plan to make a new release quite soon (before the CoCoA School).
I'm hoping Nico Mexis might be willing to make t...
06 Mar 2023
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22:41 CoCoALib Bug #1710: IsSqFree, IsIrred bugs in ZZ[x] and QQ[x]
- I have now extended *@IsCoprime@* so that it covers integers and ring elems,and a mixture of the two.
Added tests, a... -
20:56 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- I have added _b-free part_ as a keyword (or similar).
The fn name I have kept as @CoprimePart@, as it seems a reason... -
20:54 CoCoALib Bug #1725: resultant: gives wrong answer when should be 0
- Now I think I have really fixed it!
Also added an exbugs test.
Will check in shortly.
05 Mar 2023
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20:15 CoCoALib Bug #1725 (Resolved): resultant: gives wrong answer when should be 0
- I have now fixed it. Will add a new exbugs test, and check in.
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20:14 CoCoALib Bug #1725 (Closed): resultant: gives wrong answer when should be 0
- Here is a smaple input (in CoCoA-5):...
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18:52 CoCoALib Design #1572: Use noexcept
- I have just modified @configure@ so that it defines the CPP macro *@CoCoA_DEBUG_MODE@*.
This new macro is either *@t...
28 Feb 2023
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15:19 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- After looking a bit further into this, if ...
27 Feb 2023
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20:48 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- A quick thought I had about that: Two separate functions (or at least a ...
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20:17 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- Oops! I had meant to include Nico Mexis as a watcher for this issue.
I have just added him. Let's see if he has an... -
20:15 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- Thanks for the feedback!
I must agree that it is probably easier to guess what the fn does if it is called *@Coprime... -
12:09 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- John Abbott wrote:
> Since I need the fn for something else, I'll proceed with *@CoprimePart@*.
> But I still hope ... -
20:45 CoCoA-5 Design #1681: Should Starting be case-insensitive?
- I have just revised the impl in *@coclib.cpkg5@*
Right now there is a local variable which says whether to do a case... -
20:23 CoCoA-5 Design #1681 (In Progress): Should Starting be case-insensitive?
- A disadvantage of being case insensitive is that it may sometimes produce too much output...
in theory... are there ... -
20:12 CoCoALib Design #1721 (In Progress): Verbose messages: print level?
- I wonder whether the format you propose is too terse, but then making it longer perhaps produces too much output?
No... -
12:31 CoCoALib Design #1721: Verbose messages: print level?
- Proposed look (invented numbers) @[depth:level] space space@...
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12:15 CoCoALib Design #1721: Verbose messages: print level?
- Yes!!! That's a great idea!
It would be impossibile to keep the documentation up to date... and tedious to read.
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12:57 CoCoA-5 Slug #1722: Daft slug
- At least partly due to memory creation for intermediate computations: restarting CoCoA and swapping the computations...
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12:40 CoCoA-5 Slug #1722: Daft slug
- John Abbott wrote:
> On my current linux box the timings are:
> [...]
On my Mac... -
12:38 CoCoA-5 Design #1698: indent: return a string?
- John Abbott wrote:
> I do not have @IndentStr@:
> [...]
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> Can you check in? And write the manual (should be t... -
11:48 CoCoA-5 Feature #1724 (Resolved): New function: AdjacentMinors
- done and pre-released for testing
Still to do: manual
20 Feb 2023
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21:54 CoCoALib Feature #1723 (In Progress): New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- Since I need the fn for something else, I'll proceed with *@CoprimePart@*.
But I still hope to get feedback, and per...
16 Feb 2023
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09:26 CoCoA-5 Feature #1724 (Closed): New function: AdjacentMinors
- For CoCoA School Hue.
Choose the best interface.
14 Feb 2023
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21:29 CoCoA-5 Support #1688: Release CoCoA 5.4.2
- **VIETNAM**
We should decide what to complete before the School in Vietnam.
The (pretty hard) deadline should be ... -
21:26 CoCoA-5 Design #1698: indent: return a string?
- I do not have @IndentStr@:...
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21:23 CoCoA-5 Slug #1722 (In Progress): Daft slug
- On my current linux box the timings are:...
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21:20 CoCoALib Design #1721: Verbose messages: print level?
- Does anyone have any comments? Better ideas?
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21:18 CoCoALib Feature #1723: New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- I thought of @OddPart@ first (because I needed it somewhere).
Then I found I wanted the more general version, but ha... -
21:11 CoCoALib Feature #1723 (Closed): New fn CoprimePart, OddPart: naming question
- I am considering adding two new functions:
* *@OddPart(N)@* or maybe *@OddFactor(N)@* which returns @N/2^k@ where @...
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