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Re: ImageJ-version 1-49n

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Dec 23, 2014; 11:42pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/increase-resolution-tp5011019p5011042.html

On Dec 23, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Herbie <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Dear Wayne and those who may suffer like me!
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> We were informed with the latest ImageJ-version 1-49n that
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> "ImageJ now requires Java 6 or later."
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> I understand that IT is moving on and that that holds for ImageJ as well...
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> What I don't really understand is, why this essential change happens with a small version change (from 49m to 49n). Why could this requirement not wait for a major version change, e.g. from 49 to 50?
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> As you may have guessed, I'm still working on a MacPro with two PPC-processors under OSX 10.4.11. There is _no_ way to update to Java 6.
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> I very much should like to see an ImageJ-version with as much bugs/regressions corrected that does not require Java 6.
> (ImageJ-version 1-49n corrects regressions but needs Java 6 which is less than suboptimum.)
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> New features that require Java 6 are a different story, but there should be a final ImageJ-version that runs with Java 5 and that has all known bugs corrected.
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> Is this possible?

The latest ImageJ daily build (1.49o7) should work with Java 5 but it is likely that ImageJ 1.50 and later will require Java 6.

-wayne

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