On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:37 PM Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
> To your specific problem, Christopher, Hadoop relies on Docker to > install a correct build environment (per branch) and on branch-2 > successfully uses oracle's JDK 7 and JDK 8 on Ubuntu Trusty, which I > believe is still a modern OS. > > > https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/branch-2/dev-support/docker/Dockerfile > > I've thought about running a VM of CentOS 7 which would get me an environment with OpenJDK 7, but I really wanted it for my host environment, where I do development. I don't want to deal with using an IDE in a VM. I suppose I could switch to Ubuntu, which is still shipping JDK7 packages (for now), but I probably won't. Maybe I'll just suck it up and create an Oracle account, download the tarball once, then request they terminate my account.
