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newLisp on Yosemite (Mac OS X.10)
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:36 pm
by mbartz
After upgrading to Yosemite (10.10), NewLisp now prompts to install Java SE 6 runtime. Is there a configuration so that I don't have to install the Java SE 6 runtime and use Java 8?
Re: newLisp on Yosemite (Mac OS X.10)
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:41 pm
by mbartz
The installation of java se 6 was pretty easy via the apple support site. I was just curious if newLisp was going to target Java 8.
Re: newLisp on Yosemite (Mac OS X.10)
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 7:22 am
by Lutz
The newLISP IDE was running fine on Java 7, on Java 8 nobody ever complained and most likely it will just work.
Yosemete OSX 10.10 comes with no Java installed at all and I think the prompt for Java 6 will happen to any java program trying to start on OSX starting with Maverick. Prompting for Java version 6 is not newLISP specific, it is just the last Java version ever shipped by Apple. Try installing Java 8 as well and try running again. Somewhere on OSX there is also a smal control app to switch between Java versions. Also, the minimum version required for newLISP guiserver.jar is Java 6.
ps: Java 8 works on Windows