[kepler-dev] moving Kepler to 1.6

[Jianwu Wang]

  Hi Derik,

     I just did a fresh check out on a Linux x86_64 machine and compiled 
Kepler and reporting suite with java 1.6. There is no error any more.

Best wishes

Sincerely yours

Jianwu Wang
jianwu at sdsc.edu
http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/

Assistant Project Scientist
Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.


On 10/20/2010 11:53 AM, Derik Barseghian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone object to Kepler requiring Java 1.6?
>
> I haven't moved Kepler trunk's Ptolemy version forward yet because 
> doing so would mean we require 1.6, and I want to check with everyone 
> first.
> We are falling out of date with Ptolemy, and as we know this may make 
> rejoining Ptolemy head problematic.
>
> Some things to note:
>
> * this will cause problems for non-64bit <10.6 macs, unless something 
> like SoyLatte is installed (so as to have a 1.6 java -- I have this 
> problem and would want to update to 10.6 (which has 1.6 for 32bit) 
> before I did the update).
>
> * At the end of this thread, Jianwu mentions a problem compiling 
> Kepler under 1.6 on a x86_64 GNU/Linux machine. Is this still a problem?
> https://kepler-project.org/developers/kepler-development-forum/build-and-release-team/496635000 
>
>
> * In that thread Matt mentions the NMI nightly builds are running on 
> 1.5. Is this still the case and should it block us from moving to 1.6?
>
> Thanks,
> Derik
>
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote:
>
>> Hi Derik,
>> Use Java 1.6.
>>
>> On 9/23, Christopher wrote:
>>> We should probably move to Java 1.6 for Kepler.
>>> Ptolemy II has required Java 1.6 for awhile.
>>> Code in ptdb and in ptolemy.cg.lib.syntactic.SyntacticTermList
>>> require Java 1.6.
>>>
>>> Offhand, I'm not sure how to get Ant to require Java 1.6.
>>>
>>> Note that under Mac OS X, I had to set JAVA_HOME:
>>>  export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
>>> (I put that into my ~/.bash_profile)
>>> Mac users, see
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/695350/running-ant-with-jdk-1-6-on-mac-os-x 
>>>
>>>
>>> If I did not set JAVA_HOME, then Java 1.5 was used
>>> and ant compile failed with:
>>>
>>> compile:
>>>     [echo] Note that you may need to run "ant force-ptolemy compile" 
>>> to compile ptolemy.
>>>  [compile] Compiling ptolemy...
>>>  [compile] Compiling 1336 source files to 
>>> /Users/cxh/src/kepler/ptolemy/target/classes
>>>  [compile] 
>>> /Users/cxh/src/kepler/ptolemy/src/ptolemy/cg/lib/syntactic/SyntacticSeries.java:65: 
>>> cannot find symbol
>>>  [compile] symbol  : method 
>>> push(ptolemy.cg.lib.syntactic.SyntacticTerm)
>>>  [compile] location: class ptolemy.cg.lib.syntactic.SyntacticTermList
>>>  [compile]         super.push(term);
>>>  [compile]              ^
>>>
>>> This is with
>>>  ant -version
>>> Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on April 8 2010
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/1/10 2:07 PM, Derik Barseghian wrote:
>>> Hi Christopher/ptolemy,
>>>
>>> I'm getting a few compilation errors from ptolemy when trying to 
>>> launch kepler trunk using ptolemy r59357.
>>>
>>> Derik
>>>
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> nceasmacbook:build-area barseghian$ ant run
>>> Buildfile: build.xml
>>>
>>> compile:
>>> [echo] Note that you may need to run "ant force-ptolemy compile" to 
>>> compile ptolemy.
>>> [compile] Compiling ptolemy...
>>> [compile] Compiling 3618 source files to 
>>> /Users/barseghian/dev2/kepler.modules/ptolemy/target/classes
>>> [compile] 
>>> /Users/barseghian/dev2/kepler.modules/ptolemy/src/ptolemy/cg/lib/syntactic/SyntacticSeries.java:65: 
>>> cannot find symbol
>>> [compile] symbol : method push(ptolemy.cg.lib.syntactic.SyntacticTerm)
>>> [compile] location: class ptolemy.cg.lib.syntactic.SyntacticTermList
>>> [compile] super.push(term);
>>> [compile] ^
>>> [compile] 
>>> /Users/barseghian/dev2/kepler.modules/ptolemy/src/ptolemy/vergil/actor/KielerLayoutConnector.java:180: 
>>> moveTo(float,float) in java.awt.geom.GeneralPath cannot be applied 
>>> to (double,double)
>>> [compile] path.moveTo(startX, startY);
>>> [compile] ^
>>> [compile] 
>>> /Users/barseghian/dev2/kepler.modules/ptolemy/src/ptolemy/vergil/actor/KielerLayoutConnector.java:251: 
>>> lineTo(float,float) in java.awt.geom.GeneralPath cannot be applied 
>>> to (double,double)
>>> [compile] path.lineTo(endX, endY);
>>> [compile] ^
>>> [compile] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
>>> [compile] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
>>> [compile] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
>>> [compile] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
>>> [compile] 3 errors
>>>
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>>
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