[Biojava-dev] Re: [Biojava-l] Java 1.5 (final chance to object)

[Marcus Breese]

The problem for me is really the HPC environment. I know our cluster admins
would be very hesitant to intall a beta JVM on our brand new IBM cluster. We
also have a (very small) Mac cluster that will be stuck on 10.3 for quite a
while as we don't have the cash to upgrade the entire thing. So, our stuff
will be stuck at 1.42 for a while... Then again, we aren't actively
developing biojava things on those platforms, just the smaller single linux
boxes with 1.5.

On 10/6/05, Thomas Down <td2 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 6 Oct 2005, at 08:47, Marcus Breese wrote:
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> > You may want to think a bit more about converting completely over
> > to 1.5...
> > There are still a number of platforms that don't have a compatible
> > 1.5 JDK.
> > Mac OS X still comes with 1.42 standard (1.5 is available, but not
> > standard). Also, the last time I checked there wasn't an IBM PPC
> > 1.5 JVM,
> > which means that a number of HPC platforms / clusters will not be
> > supported.
>
> IBM do have something out now:
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> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/java5beta/
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> Beta software on a time-limited licence, so probably not what people
> really want to run -- but it does suggest there should be a release
> version in the not-too-distant future.
>
> Perhaps we should wait until the end of the year then look at how the
> transition is coming along. I know there's a new release of Mac OS
> 10.4 coming in the next few weeks, and it sounds like that will
> include a big pile of bug-fixed (I know the dreaded Eclipse-running-
> progressively-slower bug has been looked at). That might well
> encourage more Mac users (who seem to be the biggest group stuck on
> Java 1.4) to upgrade.
>
> Thomas.
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