Hi Carlo, I'll elaborate a bit more what I did and what happened.
1. Untar and make sage-4.3.alpha0 on sage-math. 2. Wait a few hours, play with ./sage (I didn't do ./sage -testall, though) 3. Do ./sage -clone infinitepoly before sleeping (in a screen session, if that's relevant 4. Next morning, find that it is still not finished. I don't know exactly where it was hanging, but my impression was that it unsuccessfully tried to rebuild the documentation. 5. After hitting Ctrl-C several times, ./sage seemed to work *in the new branch*. 6. I tried to apply the patch. One hunk failed. Strange enough, since there are reports that it does apply. 7. Back to the main branch, ./sage -br main 8. Try to apply the patch to the main branch -- after all, the cloning was not really a success. This time, mercurial complains that there are uncommitted changes. 9. hg_sage.diff() showed nothing. 10. sage: hg_sage.status() Getting status of modified or unknown files: cd "/home/SimonKing/sandbox/sage-4.3.alpha0/devel/sage" && hg status ! doc/fr/a_tour_of_sage/eigen_plot.png ! doc/fr/a_tour_of_sage/sin_plot.png Aha! There is a problem with the docs, right? Are these files missing? Something else. When trying to apply the patch, there was a deprecation warning: sage: hg_sage.import_patch('http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw- attachment/ticket/7581/singular_prcopyr.patch') Attempting to load remote file: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/7581/singular_prcopyr.patch Loading: [.] cd "/home/SimonKing/sandbox/sage-4.3.alpha0/devel/sage" && hg status /home/SimonKing/sandbox/sage-4.3.alpha0/local/lib/python2.6/site- packages/sage/misc/hg.py:240: DeprecationWarning: os.popen3 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module. x = os.popen3(s) Cheers, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org