#17284: Fix command-line plotting keywords
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: graphics | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Volker Braun | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
u/vbraun/fix_command_line_plotting_keywords|
c84805cafa9c5d1310145c9e31cd59e31fb7668f
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by kcrisman):
Two comments that hopefully will keep us on target:
> Is this the intended behavior? From the notebook
{{{sphere(viewer='java')}}} ...
No, but I think this was already the case earlier, although the error
messages probably will have changed. We can't necessarily validate EVERY
input, as I've been told when I've attempted to on many other tickets...
incidentally, there is the `java3d` viewer or something like it, but again
that only works (actually, doesn't, there is a ticket for that too) in the
notebook.
> Why do we reinvent the show() wheel inside _graphics_()? <and that
discussion>
This is a noble goal and I totally agree that the 3d graphics show code is
miserable due to accretion of layers over the years, but I think it
probably isn't really worth the effort to fix that ''right now'' because
it will be pretty hard to test for all possible bugs easily. On the other
hand, putting something like that in an early beta someday when there
aren't actual bugs to fix seems fine.
It's also worth pointing out that one reason that is so messy is because
the actual creation of most plots is viewer-agnostic, which was deemed to
be "a good thing" by TBDFL.
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