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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] 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 >> >> ----- >> <[email protected]> >> > >
