Back in time of JDK6 GA - when I was still working in Sun's JDK team - we had companies sitting on 1.4 and paying _a lot_ of money for Sun support of it. So...
That said, I think moving to JDK7 is pretty much has happened already for HBase, because e.g. 0.98.2 can not be build with JDK6 because we see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8479 in Bigtop CI. Cos On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:29AM, Andrew Purtell wrote: > Er, I mean no user should be running on a runtime less than 7, they are all > EOL... > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Nicolas Liochon <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Should we be 1.7 only for trunk / 1.0? > >> This would mean using the 1.7 features. > >> > > > > I think this is prudent. Hadoop common is having a similar discussion and > > I think converging on consensus that they would be ok with their trunk > > including features only available in 7. > > > > > >> What about .98? > >> > > > > I don't think this is an option, because although no user should be > > running with a 7 runtime (and in fact performance conscious users should be > > looking hard at 8), vendors will still have to support customers on 6. > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > - Andy > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > > (via Tom White) > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White)
