[OSM-dev] Osmosis Command Line Improvements

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Tue Nov 27 01:16:52 GMT 2007


On 27 Nov 2007, at 00:15, Brett Henderson wrote:

> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> Please remember that Apple hasn't released JDK1.6 for Mac OS X 10.5
>> Leopard yet.
>> [..]
>>
>> Shaun
> Then don't use an alternative proprietary OS ;-)  Why don't they  
> support
> it, it's hardly new?  Is it far away?

Apple release a developer preview for Tiger. However it won't install  
on Leopard.
Apple has refused to comment. From what I've heard they are changing  
from many years ago saying how great Java is, to downplaying Java now.  
I think they want everyone using Cocoa.

>
>
> Sorry, that wasn't helpful :-)
>
> Osmosis has required 1.6 for a while now and so far everybody has been
> able to download the appropriate JDK1.6 from Sun.  Presumably that's  
> not
> an option on OS X.  It should be possible to run on 1.5 if you delete
> the polygon task and factory, update the TaskRegistrar class to remove
> the reference to it and recompile.  I haven't tested this for a  
> while so
> I can't guarantee that no other JDK1.6'isms haven't slipped in.  I can
> provide assistance if required.  I'm extremely hesitant to maintain  
> two
> versions of osmosis to support a very limited audience but may be
> persuaded if enough noise is made.

I currently don't need to use Osmosis, though I do know there are  
quite a few mac users in the OSM community (or have they all installed  
Debian or Ubuntu or similar to replace OS X?).

If noise hasn't been made yet, I'll presume that the mac users either  
don't need Osmosis, or they are using an alternative platform instead  
of Leopard.


Shaun

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