[mkgmap-dev] Sea Polygons and java 1.6

Sat Aug 22 18:18:58 BST 2009

2009/8/22 Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk>:

> Agreed, so I am especially looking for Mac users to give advice and/or
> offer to help.  In particular SoyLatte is often suggested, but this
> requires that you be a research licensee. The openJDK release from the
> same source has recently appeared and is GPL of course and so has no
> such restriction, but it is marked beta and although I would be
> surprised if there were any problem with a command line app it would be
> good to have it confirmed.

I'm a mac user and the Java 1.6 requirement of the splitter caused me
to look into this a bit. After a lot of messing around, including with
Soylatte (which worked, BTW), I reached the conclusion that on MacOS
Leopard at least, 1.6 is already available and many Mac users will
already have it sitting silently on their machines:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/javaformacosx105update1.html

The Java preferences application will allow you to switch which
version of Java is used by default.

Or rather, that's how it is for me. Others can perhaps provide better info.

Dermot

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