Oh, good.  I hadn't noticed because I'm mostly using the console version.  I
just tried it and it's good to see that it works, avoiding the mysterious
failure in J6 I could never figure out.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>  and its package installation facilities (though
> > re-instating the J6 GUI for this would be very helpful).
>
> There are GUI versions of the package installation facilities in both
> JHS IDE and Gtk IDE. The Gtk IDE version is essentially a port of the
> old J6 GUI.
>
> > I just remembered another reason, having to do with the package
> installation
> > and update, that I'm optimistic about the new version - the older, GUI
> > version ran afoul of mysterious proxy issues when I was at work but the
> > newer one works fine in that respect.
>
> AFAIK there hasn't been any change in the mechanism for downloading
> files from the Internet and therefore the necessity of configuring
> wget to handle proxies. However as long as wget has been previously
> configured to work on the machine, it shouldn't need to be
> reconfigured for J7.
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