[Biojava-dev] Moving to Java 1.5

John Osborne j-osborne at northwestern.edu
Mon Mar 6 14:30:03 EST 2006


Michael McCormick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would not call this a big problem, it just means that the user has 
> to download it themselves, rather than using the Mac update tool. The 
> link for the JDK is here: http://developer.apple.com/java/download/ I 
> have been using this since last year and it works fine.
>
I've been using the same version on 10.4 without incident too.

Lots of comments, but no one seems to be strongly opposed to switching 
over... Do any Mac people *definitely* oppose a switchover?

 -John



> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Sylvain Foisy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The big problem on the Mac is that although X.4 has the Java JRE 1.5, the
> SDK is still officially stuck at JDK 1.4. JDK 1.5 is still in Developer's
> Preview mode.
>
> Just an observation
>
> Sylvain
>
> On 3/3/06 2:37 PM, "[NAME]" <[ADDRESS]> wrote:
>
>> I know we discussed this last October and as I remember it the plan was
>> to move to 1.5 in the new year...
>>
>>  I have just been switching over some ontology code from 1.4 that  I
>> would like to move to 1.5 (and eventually submit to biojava)- what are
>> people's thoughts on this now? I am developing on a Mac and with the
>> release of 1.5 for the Mac I think that ought to persuade a lot more
>> people to move over.
>>
>>  -John
>>
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