[Building Sakai] The Switch to Java 1.6

[Stephen Swinsburg]

I'm not sure we need to abandon the Mac as a development platform  
because of this Java issue. It's possible that if you have an older  
Mac you may not be able to run an *official* Apple release of Java 1.6  
as you might only have a 32bit machine.

I bought by Macbook Pro in late 2007 and it is 64 bit, so will run  
Java 1.6 fine. In addition, 64-bit Apple machines were being sold back  
in 2006 so unless you have a really old machine you will be fine as  
well.

In any case, for older machines that are 32 bit (ie pre-2006) there  
are ways of getting Java 1.6 on your system.


cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870

On 19/03/2009, at 3:12 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:

> The URL below is as far as I can tell a one-person OS X version of  
> the BSD port. My sense is that it's fine for a server like Sakai.  
> The issues are likely to be with audio and other interactive parts,  
> because those are the areas where OS X is unusual. See http://community.java.net/mac/ 
>  for more details about Java under OS X. Note that the same person  
> is now working with the BSD community so that OS X will be supported  
> by future BSD Java releases. In particular, there is now an interim  
> Java 7 port. They intend to release Java 7 at the same time Sun  
> does. Because Apple's Java support has been getting worse and worse,  
> not to mention more opaque (does anyone know whether they will ever  
> do 1.6 for 32-bit Intel?), I'd like to see the community plan on  
> either using the BSD port under OS X or do Sakai development on PC  
> hardware.  (I have a cheap PC running Solaris on which I do my Sakai  
> work.)
>
> As a Mac user myself, I'd prefer not to let Apple's Java release  
> policies constrain Sakai. I'd rather have us tell our Apple  
> salespeople that these policies are causing us to plan a move away  
> from the Mac as a development system.
>
>
> On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>
>>
>> http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/
>

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