On 01/12/2016 04:41 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Tim Heckman <t...@pagerduty.com > <mailto:t...@pagerduty.com>> wrote: > > We still have an installation of Cassandra on the 1.2.19 release, > running on Java 7. We do plan on upgrading to a newer version, but in > the mean time there has been some questions internally about running > 1.2 on Java 8 until the upgrade can be fully completed.
cassandra-1.2 fails to *build* properly for me on java8 in gen-cli-grammar with an antlr NPE, so we build on java6 or 7. > I upgraded to 1.8 to avoid potential leap year problems, so in June of 2015. > > java version "1.8.0_60" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27) > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode) > ii cassandra 1.2.16 > distributed storage system for structured data > > Works fine since, no discernible difference. A quick build of cassandra-1.2 HEAD (1.2.19 tag) on java7, starting it up with java8 runtime, and the basics all seem to work just fine for me. -- Kind regards, Michael
