I certainly intend to install Snow Leopard on all my Macs as soon as it is available.
Cheers, Chris 2009/6/17 Greg Brown <[email protected]> > We know. It's unfortunate, but I think it is the right choice for the long > term. FWIW, JavaFX faces the same issue - it requires Java 6 in the browser. > > Hopefully by the time we graduate and start to pick up some momentum, Snow > Leopard will be more widely installed. > > > > On Jun 17, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: > > Hi >> >> Well, it will mean that I can't do development at home anymore for a >> while, but that's just a minor inconvenience for me. >> >> The bigger issue is that you're effectively blocking production >> deployment of Pivot on Macs for about the next year - which is a pretty >> conservative estimate of how long it will take Snow Leopard to reach >> wide penetration. >> >> Which isn't a problem for me, but might be for others? >> >> Regards, Noel. >> >> Greg Brown wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Apologies for all the spam today. The pivot.* packages have been >>> renamed to org.apache.pivot.*, and all projects should now build OK in >>> Eclipse. Todd is currently working on updating the Ant script. >>> >>> We are currently thinking that, when Pivot 1.3 is ready, we would like >>> to propose graduation to the Incubator board. There are a number of >>> issues that we would like to resolve before releasing 1.3 - I have >>> left these under the 1.3 category in JIRA and created new categories >>> for 1.3.1 and 1.4. 1.3.1 will be a performance/bug fix release, and >>> 1.4 will contain new features. We don't have a hard date in mind for >>> 1.3, but ideally we would be looking at starting the release process >>> within a month or so. >>> >>> One important change in 1.3 is that we will now require Java 6 at >>> runtime (not just at compile-time). This will temporarily prevent Mac >>> OS X users from running Pivot apps in a browser. However, Mac OS X >>> 10.6 (Snow Leopard) will include a new version of the Java Plugin that >>> supports Java 6. Snow Leopard is scheduled for release in September, >>> so the total Mac browser downtime shouldn't be long. >>> >>> Let me know if you have any questions. >>> >>> G >>> >>> >> >
