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

[Shaun Walbridge]

This isn't an adequate substitute to hearing from your stakeholders, but 
here's the past couple months statistics from the two Kepler sites:

kepler-project.org:
15.22% Macintosh
1.      Intel      1090 88.69%
2.      PPC         122  9.93%
3.      Intel 10.5   12  0.98%
4.      Intel 10.4    3  0.24%
5.      PPC 10.4      1  0.08%
5.      PPC 10.5      1  0.08%

dev.kepler-project.org:
30.48% Macintosh
1.      Intel       468 91.76%
2.      Intel 10.5   32  6.27%
3.      PPC           9  1.76%
4.      PPC 10.4      1  0.20%

HTH,
Shaun

David Welker wrote:
> 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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