[josm-dev] Endless bugfixing

[David Earl]

On 11/03/2010 21:07, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 3/11/10 4:32 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>>
>>> End of this month is JAVA6.0 in any case. It would be fine, when we have a
>>> bit more stable version by then, but if not, then current tested will be
>>> last 5.0.
>>>
>> I have taken the liberty of posting that bit to talk@ so that those who
>> don't yet use Java6 have some time to get prepared (i.e. order a new
>> Macbook) ;-)
>>
> i have to say as a mac user that anyone who is still using one of these
> old macs has a very
> high pain threshold. i retired my powerbook g4 a while ago, and it was
> getting pretty
> painful towards the end.
>
> my macbook pro runs java 6 just fine.

It's not quite as simple as that though. My Mac Mini is on 10.4 Tiger. 
It's only 3 years old and is plenty powerful enough. I don't use it as 
my desktop machine but as a server, so the Java 6 for JOSM issue isn't 
really relevant for me, and I know very few people are in that 
situation, so it probably doesn't matter.

But if I was using this as my main machine, you can't actually upgrade a 
Mac Mini without a lot of angst (and it's an expensive machine to just 
replace): to add Snow Leopard firstly requires one to buy iWork etc 
which is expensive if you don't want it, and Snow Leopard also requires 
more memory which is either very, very expensive via Apple or incredibly 
fiddly to do DIY using third party memory. In the end it's probably more 
than half the cost of a new machine to do the upgrade. (Mind you, the 
iPad requires 10.5 minimum, so if I was tempted by one of those, I'd 
have to upgrade, or switch my music syncing etc to my Windows 7 PC).

David