[Debian-science-sagemath] Jmol transition?

[François Bissey]

That package traditionally gave me a lot of troubles. Because
I am not a java guy and none of my occasional helpers is either.
As it is jmol has three main elements as I see it 
jspecview a separate package
jmol proper
jsmol a javascript version of jmol produced from jmol.
Plus some other smaller java dependencies. jsmol as far as I
can see is difficult to produce from source on linux - I think
upstream uses a windows program to “compile it”.
So lately I just shipped jmol as a binary package. 

François

> On 22/10/2016, at 06:33, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Tobias Hansen:
>> I just realized that Jmol may also need a transition, if we want to
>> update the package properly. :(
>> 
>> It has these reverse dependencies:
>> 
>> # Broken Depends:
>> biojava3-live: libbiojava3.0-java
>> biojava4-live: libbiojava4.0-java
>> jalview: jalview
>> 
>> # Broken Build-Depends:
>> biojava3-live: libjmol-java
>> biojava4-live: libjmol-java
>> jalview: jmol-applet (>= 12.1.42)
>>         libjmol-java (>= 12.1.42)
>> 
>> But somehow I think spending a lot of time working on Jmol would be too
>> much of a distraction. Can we just bundle the stuff we need with sage?
>> 
> 
> I have already hacked this into the sagemath package (in sagemath-deps / sagemath-deps-common) but this has zero chance of passing NEW.
> 
> I have some experience with java packaging, I can try to pick this up over the next week. The good thing is this package hasn't been updated in a few years so at least we're not trying to hit a moving target. The bad thing is this package hasn't been updated in a few years so probably all its dependencies are "too new" now.
> 
> Andreas, could you tell us some more details that need to be done? Just on a quick build attempt I can see the following:
> 
> - probably need to do something about that ugly jsmol.zip
> - build requires you to press <enter>, this can probably easily be fixed
> - build fails to compile due to (probably) mismatching naga API, more research needed to see if this is easily fixable.
> 
> I see earlier on in this bug thread other people mentioned jmolspec and jspecview, has that issue been resolved?
> 
> X
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