I briefly tried soylatte but was somewhat underwhelmed, meaning I couldnt run eclipse with it. Maybe it is better now. I dont know. Just for the record I had java on OSX. I hope they start just doing a direct OpenJDK port soon and get rid of most of their fancy hacks it makes uDig Dev a real pain. And OSX is always way behind the actual SDK.
However I should say it has been at least a year since trying Soylatte and I only tried for about 1-2 hour. SO it is possible that it is usable and I just didnt give it a fair shake. With regards to JAI I havent had a big issue on OSX with the lack of native support. Perhaps looking at raw performance it isnt great but from a Desktop app POV it has been just fine for me. Jesse On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Jody Garnett ha scritto: > >> I am looking at getting a new computer; and was/am considering a mac. >> >> As such I have started looking into Java 6 support; and I noticed that >> it was actually released for macs - but not really. It seems that >> Java6 is 64 bit only; and does not work with the first generation of >> Intel machines; etc.. >> >> There are a couple Java 6 ports for mac (making use of X11 for swing >> etc...). I wonder since we are using SWT if we could get away with one >> of these Java 6 ports (and just include it as our "jre" in the udig >> release?). I have no idea of the quality of these ports but ... >> - >> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/javaformacosx105update1.html >> - http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/ >> - http://java.dzone.com/news/java-6-mac-worsest-release-eve >> >> It looks like this stuff is under some kind of research license; seems >> odd. >> > > Just to add one item to the consideration table, mind that you're > giving up JAI and JAI ImageIO native support if you go Mac. > No sharp drop in functionality, but one in performance for sure. > As for ImageIO-ext I believe there are some experimental builds > for Mac, so you should be somewhat covered for the formats that > are supported by it. > > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel >
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