Hi there. On 30/09/2011 20:02, Carville G. Bevans III, Ph.D. wrote: > Since you mentioned the lack of backwards file compatibility from > Jalview 2.7 to 2.6, are the files created with 2.6 and earlier > versions compatible with 2.7? yes. earlier projects can be imported into 2.7. That is something I consider to be essential for every new Jalview release. Occasionally, you will find that the data in the file appears slightly differently in the new release, this is often where Jalview has had to guess the default visualization style for something that wasn't supported in earlier releases (structure colouring is one example where this happens in v2.7). > And, once earlier version files are opened and resaved in 2.7, will > the files still open and be usable in version 2.6? no. Version 2.7 files are not backwardly compatible, and version 2.7 cannot write older Jalview project files, so you really have no choice but to use version 2.7 on all machines. > > Thanks, in advance, for all your effort towards rectifying the Java > version usage. I hope it's not a lot of work. Also, you might want > to have Jalview show a splash screen to alert users of 2.7 that > they're running on Java 1.5 and to upgrade (if possible) to the newer > version. yes. I had thought about that, although in many cases, Jalview should simply fail to launch if the version of Java available is too old, but this may not be the case with the InstallAnywhere release, or when people are using a local JNLP file to launch jalview that has not been updated to the latest version (which includes the v1.6 minimum version of java requirement).
Jim. _______________________________________________ Jalview-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss
