On Jun 23, 12:14 pm, Rolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> To be honest, I the Sage review process seems cumbersome to me.
>
> Following the instructions (http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/
> walk_through.html) I cloned a sub directory to hold my newly
> implemented gsl probability distributions (binomial and negative
> binomial to name only two). These work fine with my system.
>
> Next, I wanted to contribute these new distributions. As there already
> exists a patch for the F distribution (http://trac.sagemath.org/
> sage_trac/attachment/ticket/9080/trac_9080-rebased.patch), I wanted to
> review this first, but following the instructions for 'Reviewing a
> patch' [hg_sage.apply("<full-path-and-filename.patch>") etc.] did not
> change anything perceptible.

Probably you missed out the command to rebuild Sage library (i.e. exit
Sage and then run sage -b)

By the way, IMHO a better way for applying a patch is outside of Sage,
using hg's queues:
http://wiki.sagemath.org/MercurialQueues
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/walk_through.html#being-more-efficient-mercurial-queues


> The F distribution still is not
> available, and hg_sage.log() produces such a long list that even after
> several minutes I became tired of scrolling down. When I check the
> files that should be affected by the patch, nothing has changed.

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