Java requirements for Phenote
Phenote requires Java 1.5. We hope this is OK with everybody. If there
are issues please let us know(mgibson@fruitfly.org). 1.5 has been out
for around 2 years, and has a lot of nice features. The big issue is
Macs. Mac Tiger supports 1.5 where earlier version (Panther &
earlier) do not as far as we know. So upgrading to Tiger would then be a
requirement for using Phenote. Tiger has been out for over a year now
and is now pretty stable, so we hope this isn't a cumbersome
requirement. We have emailed with zfin and it seems the Mac users there
are actually already all upgraded to Tiger.
As for windows, linux and solaris, if you do not already have jdk 1.5
it can be downloaded from sun:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
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