Yes, I like that idea.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Robert Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally think that one of the most important goals of our project is > to get new users trying it out. Therefore, we need to avoid any possible > entry barrier. > Sadly, it seems that people (in particular companies) are still using Java > 6, even though its not being maintained anymore and potentially insecure. > I don't think our project is in a position to convince people (again, > companies ;) ) to switch to a more up-to-date java version. The thing with > Java 6 is kind of a chicken-and-egg dilemma and in an ideal world, we > should make a bold move to finally get rid of java 6. > > I would suggest to add a little check to the JobManager startup process and > print a WARN message for Java 6 users, that we are planning to drop Java 6 > support soon. This way, we allow Java 6 user to try out Flink and at the > same time give them another reason to move to 7. > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Henry Saputra <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Also just saw that Java 7 EOL is in about 6 months [1] >> >> >> [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html >> >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Stephan Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I know of a few companies who made the move away from java 6 just in the >> > last weeks or months. >> > >> > I would vote to delay the bump till end of the year. >> > Am 22.10.2014 22:39 schrieb "Daniel Warneke" <[email protected]>: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I would also be in favor of dropping Java 6 support. In my opinion, >> Java 7 >> >> is the standard these days. All of the three big Hadoop distributions >> also >> >> already consider Java 6 as deprecated for their latest releases [1,2,3]. >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> [1] >> http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/cdh5/latest/ >> >> CDH5-Requirements-and-Supported-Versions/cdhrsv_jdk.html >> >> [2] http://doc.mapr.com/display/MapR/JDK+Support+Matrix >> >> [3] http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.1- >> >> >> latest/bk_installing_manually_book/content/rpm-chap1-2.html#rpm-chap1-2-3 >> >> >> >> Am 22.10.2014 21:35, schrieb Aljoscha Krettek: >> >> >> >>> One of the reasons is that Scala was not very well known when the >> >>> project started. That was around 2009. (Correct me if I'm wrong here, >> >>> please) The more important reason is that we try to have efficient >> >>> algorithms and memory management. This is easier to achieve in a >> >>> language like Java that is relatively low-level compared to Scala. >> >>> Scala makes it easy to write concise code that get's compiled to >> >>> inefficient code. >> >>> >> >>> just my 2 cents... >> >>> >> >>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> While I just just joined the community, so I am yet to be aware of the >> >>>> internals of Flink but I am already liking the feature enhancements in >> >>>> Java >> >>>> 7 (type inferences, try-with-resources, diamond operator comes to my >> >>>> mind). >> >>>> >> >>>> A digressing question, and I am sure this has would have been debated >> >>>> extensively so pardon for bringing this up again.., but how did we >> chose >> >>>> between java and scala? >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Henry Saputra < >> [email protected] >> >>>> > >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> HI Guys, >> >>>>> >> >>>>> I am wondering what do you guys think if we make Flink requires Java7 >> >>>>> for both compile and runtime? >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Several reasons why I am proposing this: >> >>>>> 1. Java6 has reached end of life as announced by Oracle. We have seen >> >>>>> compile error happening with some versions of Java 6 >> >>>>> 2. Flink is just starting and hence have more flexibility to move to >> >>>>> Java 7 >> >>>>> 3. Flink does not have compile dependencies that requires Java 6 >> >>>>> 4. Java 7 enhancements: >> >>>>> >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Let me know what do you guys think. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> - Henry >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> -- >> >>>> Mohit >> >>>> >> >>>> "When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get >> >>>> it. >> >>>> There is no other secret of success." >> >>>> -Socrates >> >>>> >> >>> >> >> >>
