Strictly speaking the addons are just that - addons. The addons are often created by users and added as a utility/lab/demo/etc and it is basically up to the "owner" of said addon to upgrade it or allow someone else to do it.
You need to get J6 to look for printf.ijs as has been suggested or wait for Henry to upgrade it as he said he is about to do. J7 base is and has been very stable for a long time and moved out of beta a long time ago. It was decided to move a number of the addons untested from J6 to J7 in order for the user community to work on them. It is a very different approach to earlier releases and has been more positive than negative. It is actually amazing how much has already been done and how much is really working compared to the huge change that has been made. Those who do need the J6 way of things and look for the stability that is there can obviously continue to use it. The difference is then if you do stay in J6 that it is not being developed further. The J7 guis JHS and GTK are very much different from the J6 gui so anything relying on the old gui needs to be changed. Anything not needing the old gui may likely work unchanged. 2011/11/1 Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> > I ls'd the j64-701/system/main/ directory and found no printf.ijs file. > > Why would JSoftware release a new v7 version of J without first upgrading > the addons from v6? > > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > www.yellosoft.us > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:54 AM, David Mitchell <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > I don't have access to J on a Mac, so I cannot guarantee that the process > > that > > worked for me will work for you. But, I suspect that it will. > > > > What I recommend is that you install both J6.02 and J7.01 on your Mac. > > There > > are elements of J6.02 that are not currently included in J7.01. > > > > Some of the elements that are not included in J7.01 from J6.02 are mostly > > or > > wholly compatible with J7.01, but these elements have currently not been > > migrated to J7.01. > > > > The printf script is one of those J6.02 elements that does not appear to > > have > > been migrated to J7.01. > > > > I have both J6.02 and J7.01 installed on Windows 7_64. After I saw your > > question > > concerning printf, I looked in J6.02 using "Find in Files" and found that > > the > > printf verbs were defined in j602/system/main/printf.ijs. > > > > I looked at the definitions of the printf verbs to see if I could see any > > reason > > why they would not work on J7.01 or on a Mac. I did not see any obvious > > reason > > that they were likely to fail on J7.01 or a Mac. I also noticed that the > > printf.ijs script had a built-in test that validated many of the verbs > and > > formats supported by printf.ijs. I ran the test on J7.01 and the test > > reported > > that all of the tests ran fine. > > > > Based on that result and my own casual testing of printf verbs, I believe > > that, > > if you install J6.02, you will likely be able to load printf.ijs from > J6.02 > > while running J7.01 on your Mac and that will define the printf verbs and > > provide you the printf functionality. > > > > At some point, some one may decide that the J6.02 printf.ijs script > should > > be > > included in J7.01. Because of the decision to move many of the J6.02 > > included > > .ijs scripts from the main J system directories to the addons > directories, > > it > > will probably wind up in addons/format or addons/general/misc directory. > > > > I must admit I had not bumped into Mitchell and Webb before. One of > these > > days, > > I should start a web site (if it doesn't already exist) where all of us > > David > > Mitchell's could gather. Until the advent of the web, I had thought that > > I had > > a reasonably unique name. Since the web, I have discovered that there > are > > hundreds, if not thousands of David Mitchell's just in NY State. > > > > All the best, > > -- > > David Mitchell > > > > > > On 10/31/2011 14:02, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > > David: Are you saying that J701 x64 for Mac currently supports printf > by > > > default, or that printf must be compiled, or something else? > > > > > > What's your opinion of Mitchell and Webb? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > > www.yellosoft.us > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:02 AM, David Mitchell<[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> The J6 version of printf (system/main/printf.ijs) seems to work fine > > with > > >> J7. > > >> > > >> I enabled the built-in test cases and ran the printf tests on J7_64 > and > > >> there > > >> were no errors reported. > > >> > > >> NB. modify script to run tests. > > >> NB. Test lines (change ^:0 to ^:1 to run test) > > >> load 'c:/users/me/j602/system/main/printf.ijs' > > >> Error count: 0 > > >> > > >> All the best, > > >> -- > > >> David Mitchell > > >> > > >> On 10/31/2011 1:32, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > >>> $ jconsole > > >>> load 'printf' > > >>> not found: /Users/andrew/Desktop/printf > > >>> |file name error: script > > >>> | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > > >>> > > >>> Specs: > > >>> > > >>> - J701 x64 > > >>> - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 > > >>> > > >>> Cheers, > > >>> > > >>> Andrew Pennebaker > > >>> www.yellosoft.us > > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > >>> > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 twitter: @flugfiskur http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. 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