I jumped from J6. 8.02 on a win 64 machine- it was very smooth-and
simply had to move some scripts over. J7 worked once into it but the
console was a pain. I concur with the "ATTABOY"
Don Kelly
On 07/06/2014 11:19 AM, John Baker wrote:
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]
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