2009/7/6 Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]>:
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Mark Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> as I already said, TOPCAT and friends are between releases at the
>>> moment. I haven't decided yet exactly what to do about that in
>>> relation to Nanahope, but it will probably be something along the
>>> lines of wait until a starjava release branch is made and then turn
>>> off functionality which is unfinished or undocumented in that branch.
>>> The details will depend on when that branch is likely to be made
>>> (as well as how various other tasks I'm juggling go on that timescale).
>>
>>> Do you have a plan/guess about when this will be?
>>
>> None at the moment, it's a JAC call, that is I'll put this off until Brad
>> makes a nanahope branch in the git repository.
>>
>
> subversion surely (for starjava)? I imagine you can create the full top
> level branch of starjava whenever you want since Mark and Peter are the only
> two people who commit to it.
>
>> The only jobs I have outstanding for the release are rebuilding all the
>> JNI libraries. All the SPLAT and JNIAST libraries are now out of date, but
>> that's not worth tackling until we're sure AST is in its release state,
>
> are we expecting David to make more AST changes?
I've no major work planned, but minor fixes do seem to crop up quite frequently.
David
>> plus Brad usually rebuilds these for the specific release (this differs
>> from my policy of building the libraries on as old a platform as I can
>
> I don't see a problem with shipping specifically old JNI libraries for the
> release.
>
>> find to maximise compatibilty for more general STARJAVA releases, so
>> there's a bit of conflict there).
>>
>
> One subtlety for the OSX 64-bit builds is that they will only be done on
> Leopard with Java 1.6 because Tiger does not really work well in 64-bit mode
> and java 1.5 does not seem to come with a 64-bit mode on Leopard.
>
> --
> Tim Jenness
> Joint Astronomy Centre
>
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