I thought this discussion was about dropping support for 1.5, not for 1.6? I suppose there could be some issues with OS X users still on Tiger (or older), but that OS is several generations old at this point.
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/07/12 12:45am, Michael Gentry wrote: >> >> I'm OK with going to Java 1.6. >> >> As for the Mac OS concerns, Java 1.6 is available pre-OS X 10.7, plus >> developers need to be cognizant of their deployment environments when >> choosing frameworks, so I don't see that as a huge issue. > > > Yes, for 95% of developers, who mostly now work in the cloud, they control > the deployment environment absolutely. For those of us who write bits of > software for people to download and install, you have to cope with the > inevitable "the previous version worked, why doesn't this one?". > > I am still waiting to see how the OSX Java environment works out, since that > is really the only problem area. I don't see any clear indications as to > whether Java 7 will be backported to OSX 10.6. Or what the update mechanism > will be for users. Or what the Swing L&F will be. Did Apple donate their > Java UI extensions back to the openjdk project? > > > > Ari > > > > > -- > --------------------------> > Aristedes Maniatis > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > >
