Posted by
Herbie-4 on
Dec 24, 2014; 10:35am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/increase-resolution-tp5011019p5011044.html
Dear Wayne, dear ImageJ-community,
I want to take the opportunity to thank you for the steady help with and
the support of ImageJ!
I think it is a good idea to end Java 5 compatibility of ImageJ with a
major release version (50 would be an excellent occasion) that can be
regarded as essentially bug-free. Maybe a later minor version of this
final Java 5 compatible version should be possible in case severe bugs
show up; but well-understood: I'm not favoring branching at all.
Furthermore, the final Java 5 compatible ImageJ could perhaps be
accessible from the IJ-Website in a legacy-section.
Best regards
Herbie
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On 24.12.14 00:42, Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Herbie <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Wayne and those who may suffer like me!
>>
>> We were informed with the latest ImageJ-version 1-49n that
>>
>> "ImageJ now requires Java 6 or later."
>>
>> I understand that IT is moving on and that that holds for ImageJ as well...
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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