Re: Is there an official statement about Java 7 and Snow Leopard?

Subject: Re: Is there an official statement about Java 7 and Snow Leopard?

From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:02:37 -0500

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On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

On 4/12/12 1:53 AM, Michael Hall wrote:
Again someone please correct me if I understand incorrectly.

See https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port

If I can paste the pertinent for this list

Note that only Mac OS X 10.7 will be an Oracle-supported platform. It should continue to run on 10.6.8 + Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6 but that is not guaranteed. As of 1-Jan-2012 there are no plans to introduce 10.7-only APIs into the codebase.

I was off in remembering that this only applied to the installer. Although without 10.7 api's these still doesn't seem to be too much reason for the 10.7 installer.

However, isn't this still saying officially only 10.7 is supported but without 10.7 api's unofficially it is equally 10.6. Of course subject to breaking any update that does introduce 10.7 only api's.

So if I'm understanding correctly deploying 10.6 is at your own risk.

Without anything apparently pushing for it to be 10.7 only is there any indication why 10.6 support isn't being planned?

Thanks for the response to this list.

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References:
	>Re: Is there an official statement about Java 7 and Snow Leopard? (From: William Moore <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Is there an official statement about Java 7 and Snow Leopard? (From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Is there an official statement about Java 7 and Snow Leopard? (From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Is there an official statement about Java 7 and Snow Leopard? (From: Dalibor Topic <email@hidden>)