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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? > 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