I'm not out of date; that's the same eclipse I run. It isn't, however, anywhere on the standard eclipse download pages.
It would therefore be a proposterous usability screwup if you demanded your users to somehow find that download. On Aug 10, 3:45 pm, Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reinier, you're out of date. Eclipse Galileo supports Cocoa and runs > on 64 bit Java 6 VMs on Mac OS. I've been running Eclipse under Java 6 > for about 6 months already. So the only "hoop" that Eclipse users have > to jump through is to download the current release version. > > Regards > Neil > > On Aug 9, 2:05 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Until /very/ recently, the default JVM used to start java apps on mac > > os x was 1.5; 1.6 has been on macs for ages, but unless you use a > > mechanism where you can specify which VM you want (e.g. webstart), > > you'd get 1.5. Fortunately, at least today, any leopard user that has > > not got automatic updates turned off (Like 90% of all mac os x > > deployments out there have leopard with automatic updates on, so > > that's good) have 1.6 as a default. > > > There's still the Mac Os X 1.4 tiger folks, the folks with a 32-bit > > CPU, and the need to run with 32-bit libraries (such as *ALL* eclipse > > installations - if you're writing an eclipse plugin, do NOT USE 1.6 > > only features, or mac users have to jump through a lot of hoops to use > > your plugin), but that's more of a niche thing at this point. > > > So, yes, just since this month, 1.6 is okay. > > > Having said that, project lombok runs in 1.5 and 1.6, and I even > > replicated the SPI service loader mechanism which is 1.6 only to avoid > > a 1.6 dependency, because of that eclipse issue. > > > On Aug 9, 11:05 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <vjosulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Personally, I'm still supporting Java 5 for a number of libraries > > > > (BetterBeansBinding, jrawio, Mistral) because Java 5 is not yet EOL for > > > > a couple of months ;-) but above all because I presume a lot of people > > > > will keep on using it for several time. At the moment I don't need > > > > specific Java 6 features for those projects and running "matrix" tests > > > > with Hudson makes not too hard to maintain this stuff - with the > > > > exception of a specific problem. > > > > > For my own applications I've moved to Java 6 several months ago. > > > > I'm in much the same position. > > > 1.6 at home, since it came out. > > > 1.6 on our departmental UAT server since Friday (2009-08-07) but > > > without any development targeting it yet (chicken and egg situation). > > > 1.5 on our departmental live server (and all the other servers in the > > > company that I'm aware of) for the forseeable future. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
