On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>wrote:
> Not really a roadblock, it just means setting up a mac with java requires > an install <http://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_install.xml>. They > have a placeholder so if you type "java" it invites you to install. Oracle > is providing Java 7 and 8 for mac, Apple if providing Java 6 (and keeps it > up to date with security patches so far). > > It seems there is a vast gulf between Java 6 (i.e. conservative deployment > environments) and anything else. If we are going to leave Java 6 is there > any reason not to skip ahead to 8? > As the minimum version? I don't know of anyone running it in production right now, as I was saying before, a good amount of environments I'm in touch have been rolling in java 7 in the last few months due to java 6 being not supported anymore, don't think they have any plan to switch to java 8 for the foreseeable future. Cheers Andrea -- == Meet us at GEO Business 2014! in London! Visit http://goo.gl/fES3aK for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it -------------------------------------------------------
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