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

["François Bissey" <frp.bissey@gmail.com>]

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.

François

> On 13/01/2018, at 21:49, François Bissey <frp.bissey@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> This is unfortunately due to sage’s direct dependency to “jmol”
> (sage-jmol-bin these days) it used to be only a dependency 
> through the sage-notebook with the flag java. But sage uses jmol
> directly for 3D plots as its default backend. I, and others -
> including the people maintaining sage in debian - wish it weren’t
> so :( Mostly because we have a very low opinion about jmol from
> a packaging perspective.
> It may be possible to use something else for 3D plots and make
> jmol optional but that’s work I am not quite ready to commit to.
> 
> François
> 
>> On 13/01/2018, at 21:39, v_2e@ukr.net wrote:
>> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> Today I noticed that upgrading sci-mathematics/sage pulls the Java
>> development kit. Is there a way to install Sage without all that
>> Java-related stuff if I do not wish to have that on my system?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Vladimir
>> 
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>> <v_2e@ukr.net>
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