[OSM-dev] Osmosis Command Line Improvements

[David Earl]

Oh dear, I've just hit the lack of Mac OS Java 1.6 problem as well. 
Means I'll have to process diffs myself as I can't use Osmosis.

Noise factor +1 !

David



On 27/11/2007 01:16, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> 
> 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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