Thanks, JB. Are we aware of any downstream dependencies that would benefit from maintaining Java 11 support? Apache Spark jumped straight to Java 17. It seems other projects are dropping both 8 and 11 at the same time as mentioned by Fokko. From a maintenance perspective, it would be nice to drop both.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:20 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi > > I think it's time to drop JDK8 support. I would say that we should > keep Java11 (jumping directly to Java17 would be problematic > potentially for some users I guess). > > Regards > JB > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 10:21 PM James Duong > <james.du...@improving.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > If we dropped JDK 8, we could use the JDK to compile module-info.java > files. Then we could remove the custom maven plugin we’re using for > compiling module-info.java files for JPMS support and get better IDE > integration (as what we’re doing currently somewhat shoe-horns module > information alongside JDK8 bytecode). > > > > From: Dane Pitkin <d...@voltrondata.com.INVALID> > > Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 1:02 PM > > To: dev@arrow.apache.org <dev@arrow.apache.org> > > Subject: [DISCUSS] Drop Java 8 support > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to revisit the discussion of dropping Java 8 (and maybe 11) > > from Arrow's Java implementation. See GH issue[1] below. This was also > > discussed in the last Arrow community sync meeting on 2024-04-24. > > > > For context, this was discussed[2] last year on this mailing list. We > > decided to revisit the discussion around the June 2024 release (Arrow > v17). > > The timing coincides with the initial release of Apache Spark 4.0.0, > which > > drops both Java 8 and 11 support. > > > > For background, we chose not to drop Java 8 support last year because > Arrow > > is seen as a low level library that should support as many environments > as > > possible. Nowadays, we see more enthusiasm for dropping Java 8 (and 11) > as > > exemplified by Apache Spark as well as Apache Iceberg[3]. > > > > Is it time to consider dropping Java 8? Should we drop Java 11 and skip > > straight to Java 17 as our minimum version? What implications do we need > to > > be aware of? > > > > Thanks, > > Dane > > > > [1]https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/38051 > > [2]https://lists.apache.org/thread/s07jx58yw4mkl54t3bkggnyg0sftcrr8 > > [3]https://lists.apache.org/thread/ntrk2thvsg9tdccwd4flsdz9gg743368 >
