+1 to the major version bump. On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:07 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 06:36 PM, Alex Huang wrote: >> I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. >> >> We should support Java7. >> We should keep supporting Java6 until it is no longer supported by the new >> distros. >> > > +1 on that. > > And what David mentions in his mail, it would be worth bumping to 5.0 for > that. > > Wido > >> --Alex >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] >>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 7:00 AM >>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Cc: Frank Zhang; Alex Huang >>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Supported Java version >>> >>> I didn't think that we agreed to bumping the java version to 7, and it seems >>> like that might make working with distros / packages difficult. >>> >>> Adding Alex and Frank to the CC to get their take. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:23:39PM +0100, Wido den Hollander wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> So the last couple of days the master branch wouldn't build on my systems: >>>> >>>> [INFO] Apache CloudStack Framework - IPC ................. FAILURE >>>> [1.874s] ... >>>> ... >>>> [INFO] >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> -- >>>> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal >>>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile >>>> (default-compile) on project cloud-framework-ipc: Compilation >>>> failure: Compilation failure: >>>> [ERROR] >>>> >>> /home/employee/wido/repos/cloudstack/framework/ipc/src/org/apache/cl >>> ou >>>> dstack/framework/rpc/RpcServerCallImpl.java:[51,58] >>>> type parameters of <T>T cannot be determined; no unique maximal >>>> instance exists for type variable T with upper bounds >>>> T,java.lang.Object [ERROR] >>>> >>> /home/employee/wido/repos/cloudstack/framework/ipc/src/org/apache/cl >>> ou >>>> dstack/framework/rpc/RpcClientCallImpl.java:[191,60] >>>> type parameters of <T>T cannot be determined; no unique maximal >>>> instance exists for type variable T with upper bounds >>>> T,java.lang.Object >>>> >>>> So I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.1 on all my systems (laptop, desktop, >>>> servers) and this is the maven information: >>>> >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~$ mvn -v >>>> Apache Maven 3.0.4 >>>> Maven home: /usr/share/maven >>>> Java version: 1.6.0_27, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. >>>> Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre >>>> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", >>>> version: "3.2.0-38-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~$ >>>> >>>> Now, that Java version is old, I know, but it's the openjdk version >>>> which is in Ubuntu 12.04's repositories right now. >>>> >>>> I downloaded Java 7: >>>> >>>> wido@wido- >>> desktop:~/repos/cloudstack$ JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.7.0_15" mvn >>>> -v Apache Maven 3.0.4 Maven home: /usr/share/maven Java version: >>>> 1.7.0_15, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /opt/jdk1.7.0_15/jre >>>> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", >>>> version: "3.2.0-38-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~/repos/cloudstack$ >>>> >>>> With that Java version the master branch builds just fine. >>>> >>>> >>>> What I want to discuss which version of Java we support. >>>> >>>> I'd say we support the LTS version of any major release of CentOS or >>> Ubuntu. >>>> >>>> I also understand that Java 6 is pretty old, so what do we do? >>>> >>>> Wido >>>> >
