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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:41, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/9/16 Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com>:
>> Renaud MICHEL wrote:
>>> Le mardi 14 septembre 2010 à 16:32, Arigead a écrit :
>>>> Don't think that changing the OS to Ubuntu will make any difference.
>>>> I've not checked but if you do change to Ubuntu you'll still be trying
>>>> to download the Java version for Linux on PPC. I don't think that will
>>>> be supported by sun. But like I say I've not checked. The latest Java is
>>>> only supported on Intel 86 Arch as far as I remember.
>>>
>>> If you want the "official" java from Sun (which doesn't even exists
>>> anymore), no.
>>>
>>> But openjdk can be compiled on other architecture.
>>> Debian has it for alpha amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc sparc, see
>>> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openjdk-6-jre
>>> so ubuntu should too
>>>
>>
>> I tried that for something else but unfortunately the Java6 source was
>> trying to run features which were not implemented by the open source
>> JRE's. Still you're right that an open JRE might implement enough of the
>> spec to get JOSM off the ground.
>>
>
> Interesting, I run lastest JOSM with OpenJDK without any big fuss on
> Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> It should run on Mac OS X.

It should, but Mac OS X users in general seem to be more interested in
demanding that Apple do things for them instead of helping themselves,
so apps like that don't get ported.

Actually I'd be willing to bet that compiling OpenJDK 6 on OSX PPC
against X11.app is a relatively trivial matter if you apply the
patches from FreeBSD, but probably nobody has tried that yet, and even
if they did OSX users feel icky when they have to run anything under
X11.app.

*sigh*