On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Michael G. Noll wrote:
When I tried to upgrade to 0.14.2, I ran into a different error
(see snippet
below). Trying to use the new Hadoop version with Java 1.5.x fails
for me,
so I had to switch to Java 1.6.x.
That is a mistake of some sort. It was _not_ intended. I assume you
are using the release tarball off of the website? It might have been
compiled with java 1.6 instead of 1.5. I believe the QA framework
runs the unit tests under 1.5 to ensure that we don't break 1.5
compatibility accidently.
I do think it is worth changing the requirement up to java 1.6, but
of course not as a patch release. *smile* (The performance of socket
polling is much much better under 1.6.) I would not recommend running
Hadoop under java 1.5 unless you don't have a choice.
-- Owen
