[OSM-dev] Final kinks in osmosis planet dumping

Keith Sharp kms at passback.co.uk
Mon Sep 10 08:26:16 BST 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 11:37 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > **** 6. Minimum of Java 1.6
> > Dev currently has jdk1.5 installed preventing osmosis from running.
> The 
> > only code requiring 1.6 is the --bounding-polygon task.
> 
> Out of curiosity, does it work with gcj?  (Is gcj even remotely
> competitive yet?) 

GCJ seems to have stalled somewhat and lost much of its engineering
resource now that Sun have released OpenJDK under the GPL.  It looks
like Debian (and Ubuntu?) and Red Hat are working on IcedTea for the
next versions of their distributions.

Keith.





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