On 19 August 2014 19:44, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote: > While it sounds like a topic for a different discussion (or list@), do you > think it would be too crazy to skip JDK7 completely and just go to JDK8 > directly?
The trouble with that as nobody who provides commercial big-data stacks is going to to commit to java 8+ only in 2014, or the things downstream. Switching to Java 7 now not only gives us a start to that by getting off all pretence of Java 6 support, it frees up those QE teams from having to look at Java 7. While the Java 8 language changes are the really compelling ones, mandating it right now would only postpone any switch to Java > 6. Otherwise, I'm +1 for any switch to Java 7, and in the slider project we're ready for it as soon as the switch can happen. -steve > I think downstream components like HBase, Spark and so on would be a > huge driving factor to make the same change in Hadoop and other parts of > the > ecosystem. > > Thoughts? > Cos > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:23AM, Devaraj Das wrote: > > I think we are good on HBase side, at least on the 1.x+ branches. We > > are dropping support for 1.6 from HBase-1.0 onwards. > > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> > wrote: > > > [Apologies for the wide distribution.] > > > > > > Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities, > > > > > > We, over at Hadoop are considering dropping support for JDK6 this > year. > > > > > > As you maybe aware we just released hadoop-2.5.0 and are now > considering making the next release i.e. hadoop-2.6.0 the *last* release of > Apache Hadoop which supports JDK6. This means, from hadoop-2.7.0 onwards we > will not support JDK6 anymore and we *may* start relying on JDK7-specific > apis. > > > > > > Now, the above releases a proposal and we do not want to pull the > trigger without talking to projects downstream - hence the request for you > feedback. > > > > > > Please feel free to forward this to other communities you might deem > to be at risk from this too. > > > > > > thanks, > > > Arun > > > > > > > > > -- > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or > entity to > > > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > > > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the > reader > > > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that > > > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > > > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > > > received this communication in error, please contact the sender > immediately > > > and delete it from your system. Thank You. > > > > -- > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity > to > > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that > > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > > received this communication in error, please contact the sender > immediately > > and delete it from your system. Thank You. > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
