[OSM-talk] Moving to Java 1.6 not so easy to swallow

Elena of Valhalla elena.valhalla at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 11:39:42 GMT 2010


On 3/25/10, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>  wrote:
> The great irony is that the complaints about Apple not supplying Java
> 1.6 should really be directed at JOSM's use of a non-Free language
> implementation.

actually, it is easier to get a free implementation of java 1.6
(openjdk) than one of java 1.5

the main problem with openjdk is that even if it is free it isn't
easily ported to other archs, so even users of free systems on e.g.
ppc or arm may have problems using josm.

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