Re: [ jEdit-devel ] plugin for macOS

On 28/05/2019 21:19, Alan Ezust wrote:
> 
> The original MacOSX plugin is still in Subversion, so I guess we should
> create a new git repo for the MacOS plugin.
> Importing the history from svn to git is possible using open source
> tools. I recommend doing that.
> You now have permissions to create the git repo and do the importing.

I've had a brief look at
https://sourceforge.net/p/jedit/svn/HEAD/tree/plugins -- there is an
older MacOS plugin and a newer MacOSX plugin. This corresponds to the
history of names for the Apple Mac Operating System. Here are some more
recent names of the thing:

  Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
  Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  macOS 10.12 Sierra
  macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  macOS 10.14 Mojave

The plugin for Java 11 requires de-facto a relatively recent version of
the OS to work really well. The last 3 called "macOS" should be fine,
which is the reason for proposal to use this name for the plugin now.

Is it OK to start a plugin name with lowercase?


BTW, this odd confusion of plugin names and underlying Java versions
will continue with the app bundle for a standalone application on macOS.
A choice needs to be made if it runs on Java 8 or Java 11, and the
appropriate plugin needs to be used.

Now we are back to my tendency to assume that the Java version is >= 11
overall. At least on macOS that should be (almost) always the case: Mac
users are usually quite up-to-date.


	Makarius