This fact has become hugely important for me, as it allowed me to host my Clojure-based lighting control system inside Cycling ’74’s Max visual data-flow environment for music, synthesis and video. Their Java integration on the Mac currently requires the use of the legacy Apple VM, which is Java 1.6. I had to fork a couple of libraries Afterglow depends on (the ones which included Java source) in order to get them to compile Java 1.6 compatible classes, but once I had done that, everything worked, and it opened the system up to a focused audience of exactly the kind of motivated tinkerers that it is aimed at.
I don’t know if or when Cycling ‘74 are going to update MXJ, their Max to Java bridge, to be compatible with Oracle JVMs, so I am relieved to hear that Clojure is planning to remain compatible with Java 1.6 for a while. On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 7:51:49 AM UTC-5, Alex Miller wrote: > > The plan for Clojure 1.8 is to retain Java 1.6 support. After that, it is > something we will continue evaluating. > > It is possible in some cases to provide jdk-specific features as is done > with the fork/join library and a few other things. If you have a specific > enhancement request, feel free to file a jira. > > Alex > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
