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From: "François Bissey" <frp.bissey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] Sage without Java
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 09:59:08
Message-Id: 30EA2FD4-4E31-4D42-9923-2ADF3E7D5C93@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] Sage without Java by "François Bissey"
1 I don’t know the time frame yet but it should be possible to use tachyon
2 instead of jmol if it isn’t available so I may look into that. But I cannot
3 promise you to land this in sage-8.2.
4
5 François
6
7 > On 13/01/2018, at 21:49, François Bissey <frp.bissey@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >
9 > Hi Vladimir,
10 >
11 > This is unfortunately due to sage’s direct dependency to “jmol”
12 > (sage-jmol-bin these days) it used to be only a dependency
13 > through the sage-notebook with the flag java. But sage uses jmol
14 > directly for 3D plots as its default backend. I, and others -
15 > including the people maintaining sage in debian - wish it weren’t
16 > so :( Mostly because we have a very low opinion about jmol from
17 > a packaging perspective.
18 > It may be possible to use something else for 3D plots and make
19 > jmol optional but that’s work I am not quite ready to commit to.
20 >
21 > François
22 >
23 >> On 13/01/2018, at 21:39, v_2e@×××.net wrote:
24 >>
25 >> Hello!
26 >>
27 >> Today I noticed that upgrading sci-mathematics/sage pulls the Java
28 >> development kit. Is there a way to install Sage without all that
29 >> Java-related stuff if I do not wish to have that on my system?
30 >>
31 >> Regards,
32 >> Vladimir
33 >>
34 >> -----
35 >> <v_2e@×××.net>
36 >>
37 >
38 >

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