On Apr 2, 7:07 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William Stein wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> mabshoff wrote:
>
> >> > On Apr 2, 6:17 pm, "Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> Dear all,
>
> >> >> I've been having some problems with 3D plots in Sage 2.11.
>
> >> [...]
>
> >> > FC6 ships gcj instead of the Sun Java SDK. Recent version of gcj do
> >> > mostly work with jmol, but FC6's gcj is known to be broken. I would
> >> > recommend to install the Sun Java SDK. Alternatively you could update
> >> > the gcj runtime, but that is potentially painful and will likely break
> >> > other Java related things.
>
> >> Same for Fedora 7 and Fedora 8! Jmol does work from the command line of
> >> Sage.
>
> >> In Fedora 7 I never saw more the a blue rectangle. In Fedora 8 there is
> >> more to see, but never the intended plot.
>
> > Did you try using the Sun Java SDK?
>
> I have Sun Java SDK as a plugin in my web browsers. So I can use jmol
> from the notebook!
>
> > If jmol never works with gcj, I propose that when calling to jmol
> > (esp. from the command line where we have control), we check
> > if gcj is going to be used, and if so, just give an error and tell
> > people they have to install the Sun Java SDK or should use
> > viewer='tachyon' instead.
>
> That would be better than having hanging processes :)
>
> > Also, we could lean on (or become part of)
> > the jmol developers and ask them to support gcj...
>
> For the ease of use for Fedora users this would be great.
Yes. Note that Debian's gcj from testing works with jmol, so it is
probably some small stuff that needs to be fixed on jmol's end.
> Jaap
Cheers,
Michael
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