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[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Bugs-796266 ] sporadic prompt field error

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Bugs item #796266, was opened at 2003-08-27 20:54
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Category: Marking
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 8
Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: sporadic prompt field error

Initial Comment:
I occasionally get the following error when trying quizzes:



There was an internal error while initializing this 

question: 

Error in Class/IndexFunction: Type error in assignment: 

field Prompt in class `aim/TextQuestion/Version` should 

have type string 



The funny thing about it is that it is not reproducible. 

Pressing "New version" a couple of time usually makes 

the error go away. 

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>Comment By: Neil Strickland (npstrick)
Date: 2003-08-30 21:24

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There was a small problem (now fixed) with the aim/LaTeX

package, which I conjecture was the root cause of the 

bug reported by Gustav.  I therefore hope that it will not

recur, but please report immediately if it does.

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[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Bugs-797260 ] "Try question" answer not filled in

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Bugs item #797260, was opened at 2003-08-29 12:55
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: "Try question" answer not filled in

Initial Comment:
When trying a question one gets a page on which the 

answer is not automatically filled in. When then 

pressing "New Version" one gets a new version but now 

with the answer filled in. Why this inconsistency in 

behaviour?

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>Comment By: Neil Strickland (npstrick)
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This is fixed.

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[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Bugs-797257 ] missing parenthesis around complex numbers

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Bugs item #797257, was opened at 2003-08-29 12:51
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: missing parenthesis around complex numbers

Initial Comment:
The following toy example illustrates the problem:



t> Type in $@(I-1)*(a-b)@$.

a> (I-1)*(a-b)

end>



The parenthesis around (I-1) are not printed in AiM's 

output.

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>Comment By: Neil Strickland (npstrick)
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aim/LaTeX.mpl used to override various of Maple's latex'ing

functions, because they did not work properly with TtH when

I first started using it.  Unfortunately, I did not record details

of what I changed or why.  The Maple 8 versions of these

functions are better, so I just removed most of the overrides.

This cured the bug reported by Gustav, but may have 

(re)introduced some other problems.



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[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Bugs-797386 ] Problems with the s> flag

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Bugs item #797386, was opened at 2003-08-29 16:09
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Category: Marking
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 8
Submitted By: Chris Sangwin (sangwinc)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Problems with the s> flag

Initial Comment:
The s> flag seems to be completely ignored by my

version of AiM.  For example the following code



t> Type in 2

s> [proc(ans) 

  if `aim/Test`(ans,2) then\

   `aim/t`("Your number is 2, well done. ");\

   RETURN(1); \

   fi;\

  RETURN(0);\

end, 1]

end>



is marked correct if one types in 1, but incorrect if one 

types in 2.  Furthermore, none of the `aim/t` feedback 

is generated in the trial window.



Have I done something stupid?



Chris



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>Comment By: Neil Strickland (npstrick)
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This is now fixed; just a couple of stupid errors.

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Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
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fixed temporarily by replacing in aim/Compile.mpl the call to 

Neil's new ConvertMPROC function with the old code and 

committed it.



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Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Date: 2003-08-29 16:26

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I have got exactly the same problem. This is serious.



Gustav

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RE: [Aimmath-developers] bugs and delay

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Ken Monks wrote:
> > The idea is to have a flag ad> or answerdisplay> which would declare
> > a function that would override the standard display mechanism.
> > Without such a feature I have resorted
> > to hacking TextQuestion.mpl at the point where it displays the student
> > and teacher answer.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> One of the packages I'm preparing to commit should solve this problem (and
> most math-formatting related problems) without the need for a new flag.  I'm
> currently writing up extensive documentation for it and should be finished
> in the the next couple of days.

That sounds great ... if it helps to remove my TextQuestion.mpl hacks you
may see my extra features much sooner.

  Regards,
  Greg

Re: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Manolis Mavrikis wrote:
> > During the installation Tomcat gave me the option to set the port.
> 
> the windows version does that
> 
> > > Is there an advantage to using port 8080 instead of port 80?
> >
> > Probably not if 80 is still free. However I have heard that on unix one
> > needs
> > superuser privileges to install a server on port 80 but not for installing
> > one
> > on port 8080. But as I said, I know nothing about unix.
> 
> no that's not a problem... after all in linux there is always the solution
> to use the tomcat4 user.

Can you explain that please? Have you created a group or user for tomcat4?
... so that it need not run as root, or something? Up 'til now tomcat here
has been running as root and hence writes various things like compiled AIM
questions with root permissions. Do you avoid that?
 
> > >I was going to add some comments about this, as if one
> > > already has an installation using port 80, one has to remember to set
> that
> > > in ManualConfig.mpl ... otherwise admin.html, index.html and
> > > DefaultZone.mpl (in root/) are set with :8080 in their paths, and if one
> > > adds port 80 to ManualConfig.mpl afterwards and reruns AutocConfig.mpl
> > > these files are not rewritten (and you have to manually change them).
> >
> > Yes, you are right, something like that should be added to the
> instructions.
> 
> they are not rewritten because you already had a DeafultZone... otherwise
> for new users its fine.

Are you saying that if I had run AutoConf.mpl having forgotten to set the
port and so generated a DefaultZone.mpl file, that it would have been 
sufficient to delete the DefaultZone.mpl file, edit ManualConfig.mpl
with the right port and the run AutoConf.mpl again, that admin.html,
index.html and DefaultZone.mpl would be regenerated?

> As I said to my other email it will be very difficult to instruct them how
> to change settings .. its better if they keep their old ones.
> 
> Another comment on the installation instructions:
>    AIM it doesn't start any more from startaim.sh but from the tomcat
> directory/bin/startup.sh
> 
> to ease testing and not stop tomcat completely one can use the following:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/manager/stop?path=/AIM
> http://localhost:8080/manager/start?path=/AIM

Is this with any Tomcat e.g. 4.1.18 (what I currently have) ... and with
port 80, I guess that becomes

http://localhost/manager/stop?path=/AIM

etc. ... and I guess that won't work remotely will it? i.e. with
localhost replaced with the full URL. Do you have to run this as 
the tomcat4 user you mentioned?

> ps. I 'll be out of reach for a few hours... You may know that the festival
> is finishing and the fireworks in Edinburgh are a no-miss. More later

I'm going to bed now ... it's late enough. I'll catch your reply tomorrow.

  Regards,
  Greg

Re: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Manolis M. <ma...@ma...>]

> During the installation Tomcat gave me the option to set the port.

the windows version does that

> > Is there an advantage to using port 8080 instead of port 80?
>
> Probably not if 80 is still free. However I have heard that on unix one
> needs
> superuser privileges to install a server on port 80 but not for installing
> one
> on port 8080. But as I said, I know nothing about unix.

no that's not a problem... after all in linux there is always the solution
to use the tomcat4 user.

> >I was going to add some comments about this, as if one
> > already has an installation using port 80, one has to remember to set
that
> > in ManualConfig.mpl ... otherwise admin.html, index.html and
> > DefaultZone.mpl (in root/) are set with :8080 in their paths, and if one
> > adds port 80 to ManualConfig.mpl afterwards and reruns AutocConfig.mpl
> > these files are not rewritten (and you have to manually change them).
>
> Yes, you are right, something like that should be added to the
instructions.

they are not rewritten because you already had a DeafultZone... otherwise
for new users its fine.
As I said to my other email it will be very difficult to instruct them how
to change settings .. its better if they keep their old ones.

Another comment on the installation instructions:
   AIM it doesn't start any more from startaim.sh but from the tomcat
directory/bin/startup.sh

to ease testing and not stop tomcat completely one can use the following:

http://localhost:8080/manager/stop?path=/AIM
http://localhost:8080/manager/start?path=/AIM

Manolis


ps. I 'll be out of reach for a few hours... You may know that the festival
is finishing and the fireworks in Edinburgh are a no-miss. More later

RE: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Manolis wrote:

> The problem is that substituting ROOT with AiM for instance .. will not do
> the work (at least it seems so, I am still trying and let you know in a
> while). If you have an old AIM you probably need to keep your old
> options as
> they are preaty hardcoded in every .mpl file. Hopefully soon we may have a
> tool to do that.

Can you say that again? I don't understand what you mean.

Gustav

RE: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

> I guess I didn't understand all the discussion about this. Are you saying
> that the default server.xml that Tomcat provides was ok as it was?

At least in current versions of Tomcat, yes.

> Does it by default use port 8080? Is that why the default has been changed
> from 80 to 8080?

During the installation Tomcat gave me the option to set the port. The
default
value provided by the installation was 8080. I don't know whether the Tomcat
installation script was so intelligent to notice that I already had a web
server
on port 80. I just assumed Tomcat would always choose 8080. What default
port did it
give you?

>I was going to add some comments about this, as if one
> already has an installation using port 80, one has to remember to set that
> in ManualConfig.mpl ... otherwise admin.html, index.html and
> DefaultZone.mpl (in root/) are set with :8080 in their paths, and if one
> adds port 80 to ManualConfig.mpl afterwards and reruns AutocConfig.mpl
> these files are not rewritten (and you have to manually change them).

Yes, you are right, something like that should be added to the instructions.

> Is there an advantage to using port 8080 instead of port 80?

Probably not if 80 is still free. However I have heard that on unix one
needs
superuser privileges to install a server on port 80 but not for installing
one
on port 8080. But as I said, I know nothing about unix.

> > I will make sure that I upload the java and tomcat installation files to
> > aimmath.sourceforge.net. It may have to wait until Monday though.

Actually, I changed my mind. I would prefer not to upload the JDK with its
35MB.
Sourceforge only gives us 100MB alltogether for the site. It seems to me
that
users who are sophisticated enough to want to be able to recompile the java
sources
will be competent enough to get the installation file directly from sun.

I have uploaded the JRE and Tomcat already. You might want to check that
they are
alright.

Gustav

Re: [Aimmath-developers] proposal to delay and JISC

[Chris S. <san...@fo...>]

Ken,

Many thanks for fixing the bug I reported.  And for all your other work on
the Aim system.  I have no objections to a delay of the release.  I'd be
happy to run with AIM 2 until Christmas.

The JISC mail list should be still operational.  I will look into this on
Monday.

Chris


On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Ken Monks wrote:

> 
> I propose that we delay the release of the AiM 3.0 beta for at least a
> month.  It would allow us to fix all the bugs  correctly and would give us
> time to add more features and test the new version more thoroughly.  While
> it would be nice to release a new version for the start of the Fall
> semester, it might do AiM's reputation more good in the long run if new
> users have a good first impression by giving them a more stable, well-tested
> release to play with.
> 
> In addition, I have about 3000 lines of new code and bug fixes that I have
> been documenting and working on all week in order to get it ready to commit,
> but I would like to discuss these changes with the list and test them with
> the changes others have made recently before committing them.  Thus I think
> a one month delay would do the project a lot of good.
> 
> On a related matter, I have fixed the problem with the guest account that
> Chris reported, but didn't commit that fix yet.
> 
> On a completely different matter, Mike Fraboni wrote to me today saying that
> he tried to write to the JISC AIM list but it doesn't seem to work.  Is that
> list shut down?
> 
> KEN
> 
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Re: [Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Gustav W Delius wrote:
> Dear Greg,
> 
> I have looked at your new linux installation instructions. Very nice! I have
> to now polish the windows installation instructions to be able to compete.

Thanks!

> I have two comments:
> 
> 1) Tth no longer needs to be installed because it comes bundled with the AiM
> release. Section 4 of the installation instructions can therefore go.

I wondered why you had left that out of the Windows instructions ... I had
thought it had something to do with the MathML though Moodle discussions 
etc.

I just had a look in AutoConf.mpl, I see that it looks in all the default
places on the system (/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin/, /bin) and then checks
in the webapps/AiM directory ... very nice. I guess the only thing to
say is something along those lines.

> 2) In the section about AiM towards the end of step 2 you say that Tomcat's
> server.xml file is overwritten during installation. That is no longer the
> case.

I guess I didn't understand all the discussion about this. Are you saying
that the default server.xml that Tomcat provides was ok as it was?
Does it by default use port 8080? Is that why the default has been changed
from 80 to 8080? I was going to add some comments about this, as if one
already has an installation using port 80, one has to remember to set that
in ManualConfig.mpl ... otherwise admin.html, index.html and 
DefaultZone.mpl (in root/) are set with :8080 in their paths, and if one
adds port 80 to ManualConfig.mpl afterwards and reruns AutocConfig.mpl
these files are not rewritten (and you have to manually change them).

Is there an advantage to using port 8080 instead of port 80?

> I will make sure that I upload the java and tomcat installation files to
> aimmath.sourceforge.net. It may have to wait until Monday though.

Great! Thanks.

  Regards,
  Greg

RE: [Aimmath-developers] bugs and delay

[Ken M. <mo...@pt...>]

> The idea is to have a flag ad> or answerdisplay> which would declare
> a function that would override the standard display mechanism.
> Without such a feature I have resorted
> to hacking TextQuestion.mpl at the point where it displays the student
> and teacher answer.

Hi Greg,

One of the packages I'm preparing to commit should solve this problem (and
most math-formatting related problems) without the need for a new flag.  I'm
currently writing up extensive documentation for it and should be finished
in the the next couple of days.

KEN

[Aimmath-developers] installlin.html

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Dear Greg,

I have looked at your new linux installation instructions. Very nice! I have
to now polish the windows installation instructions to be able to compete. I
have two comments:

1) Tth no longer needs to be installed because it comes bundled with the AiM
release. Section 4 of the installation instructions can therefore go.

2) In the section about AiM towards the end of step 2 you say that Tomcat's
server.xml file is overwritten during installation. That is no longer the
case.

I will make sure that I upload the java and tomcat installation files to
aimmath.sourceforge.net. It may have to wait until Monday though.

Gustav

Re: [Aimmath-developers] bugs and delay

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Neil Strickland wrote:
> I will work on AIM this evening and tomorrow evening, which
> should be enough to clear the bugs that I currently know about,
> in particular the problem with the s> flag.
> 
> I agree with Gustav that we should definitely make a release in time
> for the coming semester in Britain.  I would ask everyone on
> the list to help by testing things as thoroughly as they can over
> the next week.

I have been using a version of AiM based on the state of about 4-5 weeks
ago for our quizzes here (our 2nd semester started then). There were a few
minor bugs (which may even be fixed by now), but the new multipart 
question feature was such a valuable new feature (thanks Neil) that I have 
been working around the bugs. I agree with the sentiments above ... the 
idea of a freeze on new code, is to prevent the entry of a potential horde
of new bugs which might delay the release of version 3.0 even further.

[BTW I hadn't realised that AiM stood for `Assessment in Mathematics'
 as opposed to AIM = Alice Interactive Mathematics where 
 ALICE = Active Learning In a Computing Environment. This is a bit of a
 shift in thinking, from a `learning tool' to an `assessment tool' ...
 personally I ascribe to the `learning tool' philosophy ... ]

I also have a lot of new code I'd like to add but I think it could be
improved significantly; the new code wouldn't look like a series of add-on 
hacks, if I were to implement an idea of a new flag. The idea is to have a 
flag ad> or answerdisplay> which would declare a function that would override
the standard display mechanism. Without such a feature I have resorted
to hacking TextQuestion.mpl at the point where it displays the student
and teacher answer.

We are just coming off a non-teaching week ... our next such break is in
another 4 weeks, by which time I'll be ready to test any new code Ken 
might have ready. Hopefully, the ad> idea will be ready too and my other
add-on features redesigned to use it. This will miss AiM 3.0 ... but I
think the most important thing this time around was the addition of
the multipart questions ... I didn't realise how much I'd missed this 
feature until I started using it.

  Regards,
  Greg

[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Feature Requests-765646 ] Separate login page editor

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Feature Requests item #765646, was opened at 2003-07-03 22:52
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Category: Interface Improvements
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Neil Strickland (npstrick)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Separate login page editor

Initial Comment:
Move editing of login pages from the Zone admin page

to a separate page.

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Implemented by npstrick

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Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
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Login could be most conveniently handled by Moodle. This is 

how we will do things at York. The necessary interface 

between Moodle and AiM will be released this summer. 

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[Aimmath-developers] planned changes

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Now that we have decided to allow ourselves one more week before closing AiM
3.0 to new developments, I would be interested to hear from all of you what
changes you are planning on submitting. I know already some plans from some
of you but repeat everything anyway so that we can all get an overview.

I personally would like to do the following:

1) improve navigation for the lecturer by having a navigational bar on all
administrative pages that allows the lecturer to jump directly to the most
important administrative pages.

2) improve help by having pop-up help windows for most of the links on the
administrative pages. I want to do this moodle-style, i.e., with a little
question mark icon next to the link. When clicking on the question mark a
pop-up window opens with a description of the page that will be opened by
that link. I won't have to do too much writing because the help text is
already there in teacher.html.

However I really am not sure that I will have enough time. It will probably
have to wait until the next release unless someone else wants to do it (or
is perhaps already doing it?).

Gustav

RE: [Aimmath-developers] bugs and delay

[Ken M. <mo...@pt...>]

> I will work on AIM this evening and tomorrow evening, which
> should be enough to clear the bugs that I currently know about,
> in particular the problem with the s> flag.

Thanks Neil, that was one of my big concerns since I think replacing the
codegen code might be the most valuable improvement you have made in this
round of changes.

Also thanks for all of the other recent additions and improvements you have
made!  They are great!

KEN

RE: [Aimmath-developers] proposal to delay and JISC

[Ken M. <mo...@pt...>]

> Ken, can you live with that proposal? It is a compromise between the
desire
> to get as many improvements into the next release as possible and the
desire
> to have a stable release by the start of term in the UK.

Yes, that extra week helps a lot.  Thanks.

KEN

[Aimmath-developers] bugs and delay

[Neil S. <N.P...@sh...>]

I will work on AIM this evening and tomorrow evening, which
should be enough to clear the bugs that I currently know about,
in particular the problem with the s> flag.

I agree with Gustav that we should definitely make a release in time
for the coming semester in Britain.  I would ask everyone on
the list to help by testing things as thoroughly as they can over
the next week.

Neil

RE: [Aimmath-developers] proposal to delay and JISC

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Ken wrote:

> I propose that we delay the release of the AiM 3.0 beta for at least a
> month.  It would allow us to fix all the bugs  correctly and would give us
> time to add more features and test the new version more thoroughly.  While
> it would be nice to release a new version for the start of the Fall
> semester, it might do AiM's reputation more good in the long run if new
> users have a good first impression by giving them a more stable,
> well-tested
> release to play with.

I agree with the bit about delaying the release of AiM 3.0 beta, that's what
we have been doing. But I don't agree that we can delay it for a month.

Maybe AiM 2003 would have been a better name than AiM 3.0 to make my view
clear. There needs to be a stable release that we can use during the
upcoming academic year. And this release needs multi-part questions.

I also agree with Ken that we need more time to produce a more polished
version of AiM. We should make sure that AiM 2004 will be truly polished.

As far as we in the UK are concerned, the real deadline for the stable
release of AiM 2003 is the start of the autumn term in the second week
of October. So that is still over one month away. But to be sure that it
will be truly stable, we have to continue to give ourselves tight deadlines
for the beta.

> In addition, I have about 3000 lines of new code and bug fixes that I have
> been documenting and working on all week in order to get it ready
> to commit,
> but I would like to discuss these changes with the list and test them with
> the changes others have made recently before committing them.
> Thus I think
> a one month delay would do the project a lot of good.

Wonderful! I am looking forward to seeing your new code. I think we can
still
get it into AiM 2003. How about delaying the beta for another week?

> On a related matter, I have fixed the problem with the guest account that
> Chris reported, but didn't commit that fix yet.

Thanks for the fix. Please commit it as soon as you get a chance.

Gustav

[Aimmath-developers] proposal to delay and JISC

[Ken M. <mo...@pt...>]

I propose that we delay the release of the AiM 3.0 beta for at least a
month.  It would allow us to fix all the bugs  correctly and would give us
time to add more features and test the new version more thoroughly.  While
it would be nice to release a new version for the start of the Fall
semester, it might do AiM's reputation more good in the long run if new
users have a good first impression by giving them a more stable, well-tested
release to play with.

In addition, I have about 3000 lines of new code and bug fixes that I have
been documenting and working on all week in order to get it ready to commit,
but I would like to discuss these changes with the list and test them with
the changes others have made recently before committing them.  Thus I think
a one month delay would do the project a lot of good.

On a related matter, I have fixed the problem with the guest account that
Chris reported, but didn't commit that fix yet.

On a completely different matter, Mike Fraboni wrote to me today saying that
he tried to write to the JISC AIM list but it doesn't seem to work.  Is that
list shut down?

KEN

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            University of Scranton
            Scranton, PA 18510
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[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Bugs-797386 ] Problems with the s> flag

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Bugs item #797386, was opened at 2003-08-29 16:09
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Category: Marking
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 8
Submitted By: Chris Sangwin (sangwinc)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Problems with the s> flag

Initial Comment:
The s> flag seems to be completely ignored by my

version of AiM.  For example the following code



t> Type in 2

s> [proc(ans) 

  if `aim/Test`(ans,2) then\

   `aim/t`("Your number is 2, well done. ");\

   RETURN(1); \

   fi;\

  RETURN(0);\

end, 1]

end>



is marked correct if one types in 1, but incorrect if one 

types in 2.  Furthermore, none of the `aim/t` feedback 

is generated in the trial window.



Have I done something stupid?



Chris



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>Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Date: 2003-08-29 19:50

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fixed temporarily by replacing in aim/Compile.mpl the call to 

Neil's new ConvertMPROC function with the old code and 

committed it.



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Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Date: 2003-08-29 16:26

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I have got exactly the same problem. This is serious.



Gustav

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[Aimmath-developers] working on the bugs

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

Is anyone already working on the s> flag bug? If not I will start hunting
for it after dinner.

Gustav

[Aimmath-developers] [ aimmath-Bugs-797386 ] Problems with the s> flag

[SourceForge.net <no...@so...>]

Bugs item #797386, was opened at 2003-08-29 16:09
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gustav_delius
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=439479&aid=797386&group_id=44411

Category: Marking
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 9
Submitted By: Chris Sangwin (sangwinc)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Problems with the s> flag

Initial Comment:
The s> flag seems to be completely ignored by my

version of AiM.  For example the following code



t> Type in 2

s> [proc(ans) 

  if `aim/Test`(ans,2) then\

   `aim/t`("Your number is 2, well done. ");\

   RETURN(1); \

   fi;\

  RETURN(0);\

end, 1]

end>



is marked correct if one types in 1, but incorrect if one 

types in 2.  Furthermore, none of the `aim/t` feedback 

is generated in the trial window.



Have I done something stupid?



Chris



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>Comment By: Gustav W Delius (gustav_delius)
Date: 2003-08-29 16:26

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=737246

I have got exactly the same problem. This is serious.



Gustav

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RE: [Aimmath-developers] beta release: unix install

[Gustav W D. <gw...@yo...>]

> Looking through your instructions I saw the links to:
>
> http://aimmath.sourceforge.net/j2re-1_4_2_01-windows-i586.exe

I can download the Linux equivalents too. Just tell me which ones to use.


> I think it would be
> good to have a
>
> http://aimmath.sourceforge.net/download.html
>
> listing these.

I don't see the use of that. As long as they are linked to from the
installation instructions that should be enough.

> Are these files actually at the Sourceforge site or
> are they at York where http://aimmath.sourceforge.net/ redirects to?

They are actually at SourceForge.

Gustav