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

[David Welker]

Thanks for the link David. I wonder if you it is correct that a majority 
of our Mac users would be unable to use Java 1.6. Right now, everyone 
here at UC Davis is using Java 1.6 just fine. I would definitely like to 
here from specific stakeholders who say that they specifically would be 
affected.

In the meantime, I am going to go ahead and test the use of this other 
version of Java 1.6 on my Mac (which is an Intel-based machine running 
OS X 10.5) and see if I run into any problems.

David
> 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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