Wait a few weeks. jdk6 (jse 6) should be in the Leopard Mac OS X release, c. 26 Oct.
- rpf On 10/12/07, Michael Bieniosek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if there is a jdk6 available for Mac? I checked the apple > developer site, and there doesn't seem to be one available, despite blogs > from last year claiming apple was distributing it. > > Since I do my development work on a Mac, switching to jdk6 would be very > difficult for me if I can't find a darwin jdk6. I need to be able to build > job jars and patch hadoop. > > -Michael > > On 10/12/07 10:12 AM, "Doug Cutting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen O'Malley wrote: > > That is a mistake of some sort. It was _not_ intended. I assume you are > > using the release tarball off of the website? It might have been > > compiled with java 1.6 instead of 1.5. > > Yes, it seems I built the 0.14.2 release using 1.6 by accident. Sorry! > If this is a blocker for folks, please file an issue in Jira and I > will make a 0.14.3 tarball that's compiled with Java 1.5 instead. > > > I believe the QA framework runs > > the unit tests under 1.5 to ensure that we don't break 1.5 compatibility > > accidently. > > Yes, that is the case. Hudson uses Java 1.5. > > > I do think it is worth changing the requirement up to java 1.6, but of > > course not as a patch release. *smile* (The performance of socket > > polling is much much better under 1.6.) I would not recommend running > > Hadoop under java 1.5 unless you don't have a choice. > > Can you please file an issue in Jira for this? Then folks can weigh in > there. > > Doug > > >
