I have been doing some janatorial work tidying up warnings in the source code now that we are aiming entirely at Java 1.5. It would be nice to move to Java 6, but I understand that Java 6 is a problem for the Mac users.
I am unsure as to the status of Java 6 on the Mac, and of course there are now two versions of Java 6, the regular Sun Java 6 and the OpenJDK Java 6. OpenJDK is the way that Sun are going for the future and as I understand it there is a version of OpenJDK that runs on the Mac (and many other platforms as well). It would be good to move this Open Source project to an Open Source Java (OpenJDK) but the earliest one available is the Java 6 one. So could I ask those who were having problem with the Mac and Java 6 whether you have tried the OpenJDK version and if you have any problems with running the host code on that version.
It only actually requires one change at the code level when we move to Java 6, the current svn host code uses an additional library to provide a Layout called GroupLayout. This is now part of Java 6 but for Java 5 you have to use an additional jar file and the package name for it is different.
David