perfsonar development work

[Tsompanidis Ilias <>]

Hello Rolland, all,
we have had some problems while the developers were using java 6 to compile everything, and with users using java 5.
Everything worked OK when the developers used java 5. (and worked OK on machines with java 6)
So in means of backwards compatibility (and cross platform compatibility - for example there is no official update to java 6 for macs), I would propose sticking with java 5, unless necessary ;)

Greets,
Ilias

Roland Karch wrote:

At 09:37 05.06.2007, Nina Jeliazkova wrote:

I think the best is to get user and developers feedback on this issue.

Currently perfsonarUI compiles under Java 5.0 and higher. Gijs submitted some
plugin UI code which needs Java 6.0. So far the options for perfsonarUI are:

- Upgrade to Java 6.0 and abandon 5.0 support;
- Stay with Java 5.0 for now and provide different build file for the plugins;
- Force all plugins to use same version (Java 5.0 currently);
- Anything else?

For the BWCTL plugin, my Java development environment is currently version 5. I really have no idea about the implications of upgrading to 6. I'd assume it just requires a download from SUN and then to recompile everything. If so, it would be nothing more than a minor inconvenience since Java 5 is already bundled with Debian, and I'd have to maintain an installation on my own if I were to upgrade.

A different build file for plugins might be a good idea though, I really don't like my current hack of just adding the build instructions to the main PerfsonarUI build file.

Greetings,
Roland

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