On Jul 10, 4:44 pm, William Cauchois <wcauch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Mike Witt<mwg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Here's an example, from my comment on the ticket:
>
> >> {{{
> >> x, y = var('x y')
> >> plot3d(sin(pi*(x^2+y^2))/2,(x,-1,1),(y,-1,1), viewer='canvas3d',
> >> plot_points=(20, 20))
>
> >> }}}
>
> > Hmm.... Well, maybe I didn't actually succeed in installing the patch.
> > I get: ValueError: Unknown 3d plot type: canvas3d.
>
> > I did hg_sage.apply("http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/
> > ticket/6447/trac_6447-canvas3d.patch") and I didn't *think* I saw
> > anything that looked like and error message. I'm running sage-4.0.2.
> > I've never actually tried to apply a patch before, so I'm not too sure
> > what I'm doing.
>
> I think I found your problem. The URL you specified points to the HTML
> formatted diff that is displayed by default. If you scroll to the
> bottom of that page, there's a link for "Download in other formats:
> Original Format" -- the URL you want is actually
> <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6447/trac_64...>.
>
> > Is there a section in the documentation that tells about applying
> > patches, and related things?
>
> The only relevant section I could find
> <http://sagemath.org/doc/developer/producing_patches.html> describes
> the opposite of what you want to do. You might want to read the bit
> about branches though, if you're not familiar with that feature
> already. You should run "sage -clone canvas3d" to create a new branch
> and THEN import the patch, so you don't inadvertently modify the main,
> stable Sage branch.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
I'm afraid this looks beyond what I can manage. I was hoping it was an
"easy" tweak, like installing an spkg. I sure hope this makes it into
the "real" sage code someday. But thanks for the help.
-Mike
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