Jim Clark wrote: > On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> You have to do "sage -b" first. >> >> The -b makes Sage rebuild itself to incorporate changes. The first >> time >> you run it, it will take a while (maybe 20 minutes?). After that, >> depending on the changes you make, it will take seconds. >> >> If you're not sure how to apply the patch, probably the easiest way to >> apply the patch is to do the following at the sage command line: >> >> hg_sage.apply('http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/ >> 4343/gradient.patch?format=raw') >> >> Then quit out of Sage, run sage -b, then start sage back up again. > > Thank you for the detailed instructions, Jason. The patch works! > > The details: > Applied the patch in sage 3.1.2 (from downloaded OSX 10.4/PPC binary). > "sage -b" required 13.5 HOURS on my iMac with a 400 MHz G3 processor... > (William said he wanted to know :-)
Oh, wow. Sorry, I didn't realize you had a 400Mhz G3. I would have not said 20 minutes in that case. > > The tests I previously reported in this thread now perform as I expect. > > My application (calculating a vector electric field from a scalar > potential field) also provides correct results. > > I see that the trac ticket is in state "needs review", but I don't > have a login id needed to report this review directly. > In my opinion the ticket could now be advanced to an "approved" state. You can email Michael Abshoff (mabshoff on this list) for a trac account. Once you have one, you can change the ticket title from "needs review" to "positive review". Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---