Re: Need test of patch for OS X

[Ben Abbott]

> On May 11, 2016, at 1:43 AM, Sebastian <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Am 11.05.2016 um 06:16 schrieb John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> On 05/10/2016 09:55 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok, good news! I removed all Java installs and reinstalled Java from Apple.
>>> 
>>> https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
>>> 
>>> Now, with your patch applied, the tests pass.
>>> 
>>> PASSES 6 out of 6 tests
>>> PASSES 6 out of 6 tests
>>> PASSES 6 out of 6 tests
>> 
>> Thanks.  It's good to know that it is possible to dynamically load some at 
>> least some version of the JVM.  But from the link it looks like that's an 
>> old version of Java and not the one that is currently recommended, correct?
>> 
>> jwe
> Yes. It's an old one (6). However, it is the last one that came from Apple 
> directly. I never got Octave working on the Mac with the newer Java 
> distributions from Oracle.
> 
> Bye
> Sebastian

This is the first time I’ve had Java work for me. However, I haven’t tried 
since pre Mac OS 10.9.

With 10.9, I was no longer impacted by the cocoa requirement that the GUI run 
on the main thread. Thus, my impression is that this requirement was dropped 
with 10.9.

Ben