Hi, On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 02:45:09PM +0200, Erik Bray wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:21 PM Eric Gourgoulhon <egourgoul...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Volker, > > > > Le vendredi 14 septembre 2018 22:44:34 UTC+2, Volker Braun a écrit : > >> > >> I don't think there was a deliberate change. Rendering the jmol > >> version requires java, which is an external dependency. There was > >> also a bug in detecting java 10+ which is only fixed in Sage > >> 8.4.beta4. The expected behavior is: If java is not installed or not > >> properly found then the docs fall back to tachyon. > > > > > > Thanks for your answer! > > Indeed I've just build the doc for Sage 8.4.beta4 with OpenJDK 10 on > > Ubuntu 18.04 and everything is OK. > > Btw, I've added default-jdk to the list of required Ubuntu packages to > > build Sage: https://wiki.sagemath.org/prerequisitesUbuntu > > > > Side note: all this sounds like another motivation for #22408. > > Right. In this day and age it's absolutely absurd to have a Java > dependency just to render 3D models. If there's something about the > Tachyon plots that's inferior to the Jmol plots, or at least > noticeably different, we should fix that (for the HTML docs why not > use threejs by default across the board?)
Just to avoid biased discussion, please note that java is only required from the command line. When used from a notebook (which is where it could be compared to threejs), jmol is actually jsmol, and only relies on javascript. Ciao, Thierry > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
