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Re: System information

We develop for Mac, but one of our needs is that it be a cross platform as much as possible, so it can work on Windoze.
We develop on Netbeans weekly build on Fedora RC (dual dvi 21" monitors - small development teams), and have continuous integration ant based. (ant runs using Java 6 monthly build targeting Java 5. it detects a CVS comitt in 30 seocnds and builds a 40 meg war. We use Java 6 at build time to make sure we are compatible, and we also use retorweaver ant task for Java 1.4 users).
The ant make a war that contains the swing app (JNLP). We then QA UI from a PowerPC mini-mac (which uses only what is "up2date" from apple like a user would) against the linux tomcat server (until we receive the Intel, at which point we will stop testing PowerPC, but would still support it. Of course ant does the junit tests).

One may say why so much rc tools? Developers like it and we unit test. Users can still run Java 1.4 but .... why not check out Java 6, so we can have new features ahead of other devs.

The "component" we use is the WebKit, which is native and we think we have the dual-binary release, but it ends up to be just a "jar". We don't touch it much.
We also use native media library to show video. It's Linux comtible media player that is embedable and works on mac (embedded in Swing. QuickTime does not support many encoding types at all and.... more encoding is better. Windows users embed the MS Player, that does have good encoding support).

We found Fedora on Mac PPC w/ Netbeans on IBM JVM runs it MUCH faster then OSX and considered that as dev stack.

hth,
.V
(it be great to have a Objective C way to do some version of ClickOnce or WebStart deployment, found non on their list)



Michael McDougall wrote: 

What versions of things are you running today?

   preferred JVM
   version of Xcode tools
   versions of any other IDEs
   java version

Do you also have PowerPC-based Mac, running a different set of tools? Any feedback appreciated...

M McDougall


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