Re: heads-up on MacOS X & Java

[Ben Abbott]

> On Oct 6, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 13:12:03 -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> With macOS 10.13, Apple has depreciated Java 1.6 for the Mac.
>> 
>> More recent versions do not work with Octave.
> 
> Can you clarify what you think this means and what Octave should be
> doing differently? Or what specific error you have?
> 
> My understanding of Java versions is that Java 9 was just released last
> month. In Java 9, Java 1.5 code is now an error and Java 1.6 code is
> warned as being deprecated but still works. I changed our build system
> to compile for the Java 6 target to be as backwards compatible as
> possible while still supporting Java 9.
> 
> -- 
> mike

Hi Mike,

I haven’t been keeping up on the state of Java. Perhaps all will work now. I’ll 
try building against Java 9 and see if that works. If not, I’ll give Java 8 a 
try.

Ben