On Thursday 15 Sep 2011, Thad wrote: > Right, good riddance to 1.5 so long as your not stuck supporting a few > die-hards with old Macs as servers. Apple didn't port Java 1.6 to the > old non-Intel RISC machines.If a site's server runs OSX 10.4 or below, > or it's a non-Intel machine with OS 10.5, GWT 2.4 is not an option. > > God help us when Java 1.7 is required. I was never happy with the > Blackdown port for Linux. Therefore I'm not confident that OpenJDK > will provide a suitable environment for OSX down the road. The fact > that I develop almost exclusively in Java these days is what keeps me > from making a Mac my next computer. This should be much less of a problem now as OpenJDK is the only official JDK for 7. I have no idea whether there is a version for MACs, but it is now all properly open source so if you need to make a version for old machines then it is open for you (and others) to do so.
David > > On Sep 14, 5:47 pm, Jeff Larsen <larse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yea, 1.6 is required now. Good riddance to 1.5! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
