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Re: Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9

Don't waste your time filing a bug. Inability or unwillingness to support Java is not a bug, it's more than likely some type of marketing decision and it may be market based.

Instead, I would recommend that you file your comments at the OS X feedback link at:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I came from an environment of 20+ years in Unix. As the Unix market declined further and further, I switched to Linux. Linux is a fine OS, but it does have some shortcomings, such as the incredible differences that seem to occur from version to version and even release to release. Myself and others I know got a little fed up with the "download, install, patch, re-patch, re-configure" path that seems to be associated with Linux. It's for this reason that I moved to OS X. Here we have (or had) an OS that's Unix based and yet doesn't (or didn't) seem to need some of the administrative attention that Linux seems too frequently to demand. To date this has, for the most part, been true. I am, however, now at a point where I must reconsider distributing and/or recommending the use of OS X to clients. I switched to OS X to do Java development, not because it has a lot of gimmicky features as seems inherent in Leopard. If Java isn't kept up to date on OS X, then there's no reason for me to recommend it to clients, and quite honestly, no reason to buy any more hardware or OS releases from Apple.

I think an argument like this, pointed at those in power will carry a lot more weight than bug reports for a product that, for all practical purposes, doesn't and may not exist. Bug reports end up in the hands of other developers. General feedback (hopefully) ends up in the hands of those making decisions.

Just my opinions,

Bill Wagner



Thomas Singer wrote: 
 > Please - file a bug with http://bugreporter.apple.com . I did so
 > already. That's the only channel Apple officially listens to.

I've reported a bug 3 years ago. I've never got a follow-up and it's still there.

Tom


Ulrich Kortenkamp wrote: 

Am 13.02.2008 um 08:16 schrieb Thomas Singer:

I completely agree with Eric. If Apple will not release 1.6 for all Macs of the last one or two years, we can not use it at all, because our applications need to run on as much as possible Macs.

Please - file a bug with http://bugreporter.apple.com . I did so already. That's the only channel Apple officially listens to.

By the way - is it really so difficult to support both 32 and 64 bit? C'mon engineers, you should be able to create something that compiles for both architectures.

Ulli 
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References: 
 >RE: Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9 (From: "Eric Kolotyluk" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9 (From: Thomas Singer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9 (From: Ulrich Kortenkamp <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9 (From: Thomas Singer <email@hidden>)



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