At 18:23 -0400 2010/06/08, Eric Iverson wrote: > >The download now includes an installer for Mac Powerpc. I'm not able to test >JHS on my test machine as it has an ancient Safari and I haven't bothered to >do all the necessary upgrades and would prefer to just let it lie. User >feedback on JHS on MAC Powerpc would be appreciated. >----------------------------------------------------------------------
Big endian (PPC) results in OSX 10.5.8 using Safari 5.0 - j701 installs nicely by just dropping the folder into /Applications. Launching jhs701.app from that folder is a little strange in that it opens a Unix terminal session that gets abandoned (but not closed) when things are shut down. The instruction to get a browser session going works fine with a copy/past of the URL (I haven't yet tinkered with access from an outside machine). The JHS session seems to work nicely and the new demos are very encouraging giving the impression that this is going to develop into a great facility. The demos are useful and looking at the source .ijs seems like a good way to learn about how to do this stuff - feels more open than prior versions. On the negative side, jconsole doesn't work (the way I want it to) out of the box. My problem has to do with profile.ijs - The previous mechanism of profilex.ijs as derived from profilex_template.ijs seems to have been abandoned. This has two damaging effects on my normal setup in OSX - one is the ability to have the Jxxx-user directory located in Documents rather than at my user root (I like to avoid clutter!) The other is bringing in my ancient profile - the profile.ijs seems to be saying that startup.ijs is the tool, and I guess that was available before along with profilex.ijs, but I never used it. This is an issue in both OSX and Linux. I don't mind adapting, but hope that things will stabilize so that updating j doesn't cause the environment to break... By the way, my old profile.ijs stuff is also missing, of course, in the browser session and the j701-user directory is plopped into user root.... I think that the move in j602 to avoid the need for hacking profile.ijs was a good one - is there a reason for abandoning profilex.ijs ?? What is the recommended way to get the previous behaviors in jconsole? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
