I have bitten the bullet and upgraded to j 8.02 on my 64 bit win 8.1 machine.
After following bug reports and forum traffic for the last year I was expecting a bumpy ride but I am happy to report that things are far smoother than expected. I am particularily impressed with the improvements to the QT interface. I know Bill, Chris and others have been busy on this for sometime and for me the new QT interface is very zippy and fast. 64 bits is the future. When I installed all the addons I noticed that my own JOD addon was not on the j 802 list. This is my fault as I explicitly set J versions in manifest.ijs. I copied the JOD directories into the j 802 tree and it ran without problems. The j 802 editor popped up without a single byte of configuration code on my behalf. In the next few days I will tweak JOD so it shows up as a j 802 addon. Everyone that has worked on j 802 and should give themselves one big attaboy. If you guys took Bitcoins I would even pony some up. Think about it! Cheers John Baker On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > There should be no problem running 602 and 701 and 801 side by side. > But I think you should move most work (and certainly Jd to 801) and > drop use of 701. > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will give it a try. I presume you can run 8 alongside 7. I still keep > a > > version 6 around for test purposes. > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> I would simplify things for us at this end if you moved to J801 (or > >> 802). Do you have a strong reason for staying with J701? Unless I am > >> missing something, it should be very simple for you to upgrade to > >> J801. The only reason for not doing so is if you made serious use of > >> gtk and don't want to move to qt at this time. > >> > >> 801 is a signficaant imrpovement over 701. And 802 will be the new 602 > >> (that is, very stable and long lived where we can focus on makking > >> everything clean and smooth). > > > > > > > > > > -- > > John D. Baker > > [email protected] > -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
