For CelllProfiler, there's some packaging work that would need to be done (we bundle the JRE with the Windows version and the Centos 6 RPM has Java 6 as a dependency). We rely on the system Java for the Mac presently and I don't have a clear idea of what range of Java 7 support to expect on our user's Macs.
It certainly seems like there is a lot of pressure to move to Java 7, so my vote would be to move to Java 7, even considering the above. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Tobias Pietzsch <pietz...@mpi-cbg.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > what is everyones opinion on moving the IJ2/Fiji stack to a new version of > Java, i.e., Java 7. > Java 7 has been around for more than 3 years now. The end-of-life final > public release of Java 6 was more than 1.5 years ago. > > Benefits I see are the following: > > * We could use the “new" Java 7 libraries. For example the Fork/Join > framework would come handy in defining multi-threading interfaces in > scijava-common (to be used in imagej-ops for example). Or the NIO2 stuff > (java.nio.file) > > * We would benefit from improvements of type inference for generics in the > compiler. No more jumping through hoops to fix “errors” in code that should > compile with Java 6 but doesn’t. (Plus we could use the diamond operator to > shorten generics instantiations.) > > * We could use third-party libraries that only support Java 7. For example > I’m using Jetty in a project that can therefore not be part of Fiji > currently. (This mail was more or less triggered by me looking into > http://ojalgo.org who maybe went a bit over the top and already abandoned > Java 7 for Java 8). I think it is only a matter of time until we will have > a problem with third-party libraries that we already use abandoning Java 6. > > > I do not have a clear picture of what the downsides would be. Johannes > always said that people on old macs are tied to an old java version and > that we do not want to leave those users behind. It would be interesting to > know how many people that actually would impact. > > > What do you think? > > best regards, > Tobias > > > -- > -- > Please avoid top-posting, and please make sure to reply-to-all! > > Mailing list web interface: http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Fiji-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to fiji-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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