[kepler-dev] Hypothetical Question: Are there any stakeholders who would object to requiring Java 1.6. Why?

[David Groulx]

Java 1.6 is only officially supported on OS X 10.5 on Intel 64bit  
processors, so this would cut out the majority of your Mac users.   
However, there is a non-apple supplied Java 1.6 at http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/ 
  that extends support to PPC and OS 10.4.  I've only talked to one  
person who has used soylatte on OS X for their Java 1.6 code, but they  
seemed to think it worked okay.

David Groulx

On 29 Jan 2009, at 16:39, David Welker wrote:

> Right now, I am trying to evaluate whether the build system and  
> Kepler should require users to upgrade to 1.6. I was curious whether  
> anyone is using Kepler on a system where upgrading to Java 1.6 would  
> be a problem. If so, I think it would be very helpful if you could  
> either reply to this email with your reasons or, better yet, include  
> your thoughts at the discussion on the forum available at the  
> following link:
>
> https://dev.kepler-project.org/developers/kepler-development-forum/build-and-release-team/496635000
>
> Thanks! I am looking forward to hearing any thoughts or objections  
> about requiring the use of 1.6.
>
> David
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