Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] Sage without Java

[François Bissey]

OK I have spent a little bit of time looking at this.
*) of course the test suite needs jmol to complete properly;
*) documentation probably can be built with tachyon but I am not sure;
*) several defaults need to be changed to tachyon otherwise things will just break;
*) the only alternative available in all cases where 3D rendering is needed is 
tachyon - but basic 3D plots could also use threejs.

There are 3 places where a patch needs to be applied to change the default.
One of them would fall back on tachyon but it is probably better just to be
consistent. 

I definitely can do something about this for 8.2. I think
the issues are clearly identified.

François

> On 21/01/2018, at 03:12, v_2e@×××.net wrote:
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> Hello!
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> On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:59:01 +1300
> François Bissey <frp.bissey@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> I don’t know the time frame yet but it should be possible to use
>> tachyon instead of jmol if it isn’t available so I may look into
>> that. But I cannot promise you to land this in sage-8.2.
>>
> I have always been using tachyon for 3D images. So that would
> definitely be great. Thank you for working on Sage-on-Gentoo!
>
> Vladimir
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