On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Brad Cavanagh wrote:
>
>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Mark Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>> Mark, I'll leave it to you to do the starjava branch whenever you
>>>> (and Peter) feel it's appropriate. I'll set up a branch in the git
>>>> repository sometime around Dec 17/18, and then hopefully only accept
>>>> bugfix and documentation patches after that point.
>>>
>>> I've created a starjava release branch at
>>>
>>> https://starjava.jach.hawaii.edu/svn/branches/hawaiki
>>>
>>> This corresponds to versions
>>>
>>> TOPCAT v3.5-1
>>> STILTS v2.1-1
>>
>> Thanks Mark. Do you (and Peter) have any strong feelings on Java
>> version? The last release we shipped both 1.5 and 1.6.
>
> I should do the build using a 1.5 JDK, so that the jar files will work
> with either a 1.5 JRE or any later version. If you're asking about what
> JRE to bundle with the package, I don't think it makes much difference
> for the starjava software itself, but if you ship a 1.6 JRE it will be
> usable with external java classes that were built using 1.6 as well as
> 1.5. I'm not aware of any good reason to ship two different JREs.
I thought the reason we shipped 1.6 was because of some external JAC
requirement for the version of JSKY used in the OT? If that still stands
then we still need to build using 1.5 and ship 1.6.
Peter.
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