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On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:45 AM, Peter W. Draper wrote: >>> 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. I talked to Sam and he said that internally (at JAC) we use 1.6 because the OT uses JSky 3. The externally-seen OT uses WebStart and doesn't use JSky 3 yet, so 1.5 will do. I guess I'll still build using 1.5 and ship both. Cheers, Brad.