[OSM-talk] End of road for JOSM on OS X for ppc

[Sebastian Klein]

Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I tried to upgrade JOSM on my trusty old Apple Powerbook G4. 
> However, JOSM now needs Java 6SE, which is _not_ supported on OSX 
> version 10.5 (Leopard). If you own a Mac with an Intel CPU, you can 
> upgrade to OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but that is not an option for 
> machines using the PPC architecture.
> 
> I had to downgrade JOSM again to version 3376, which is the 
> end-of-the-line version for Mac OS X running on a PPC chip. So, if you 
> own a machine like that, don't upgrade JOSM!


For any fundamental changes like new killer features or a change to API 
0.7, it should be possible to port that back to JOSM 3376 / Java 5.

This probably won't be done by core developers, but if someone takes the 
initiative, we wouldn't oppose. :)


Sebastian