The following PRs are open for review: - build/pkgs/jupyter_jsmol: Change to optional <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38532> - Demote jmol to optional <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38504>
On Monday, August 19, 2024 at 5:13:29 PM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > jupyter-jsmol > <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/jupyter_jsmol.html#spkg-jupyter-jsmol> > > is the current standard package providing javascript version of Jmol (which > I proposed to demote to optional in > https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/qKqTmLzHAbg, > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38504). I propose to demote it to > "optional". (In > https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/qKqTmLzHAbg/m/OwGjF4GiBQAJ > (2020), Antonio Rojas already asked if there is any reason for not making > jsmol optional too because three.js > <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/threejs.html#spkg-threejs> > is our default 3d renderer.) > > tachyon > <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/spkg/tachyon.html#spkg-tachyon> > is a standard package providing a raytracer, dating back to 1994. It has a > precarious maintenance status. Fedora has orphaned this package, and it is > not available in the current release 40 ( > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tachyon), Debian has an extensive set > of patches that have not been upstreamed ( > https://sources.debian.org/patches/tachyon/0.99~b6+dsx-12/). The Arch > Linux package (https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/tachyon/) is > maintained by Antonio Rojas; sage is listed as the only package depending > on it. I propose to demote this package to optional as well. > > Jmol (not jupyter-jsmol) and Tachyon serve the purpose of saving 3d > graphics as png files, in particular for our PDF documentation. > I propose to replace this function (exclusively provided by these two > packages in Sage) by using the tool Playwright, which installs a browser > such as Chromium and screenshots an arbitrary webpage as a PNG file. By > using it on a three.js rendering of 3d graphics, we can thus save the 3d > graphics as a PNG file. This is PR > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38509 (needs review). This is much > heavier-weight technology than tachyon, but it has excellent mainstream > maintenance status. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/6414265f-531b-4abb-9a05-7c2186d83427n%40googlegroups.com.
