We have 0.94 for JDK 6 diehards. I'd be fine with moving to 7+ for 0.98 if there's consensus to do it.
> On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Nicolas Liochon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah. It would also be so much simpler when it comes to backporting from > master to 0.98, and 0.98 could very likely live a long life, a la 0.94. So > the sooner we're clear on this the better. > And anyway, Hadoop will likely drop the JDK6 in a 2.x release, so we will > be stuck with a 2.5 or so if we don't stop the JDK6 support. > > Lastly, HBase 0.94 is still alive and kicking for the 1.6 lovers. > >> We can vote. Could also just decide. > > Let's try to decide here. If I understand correctly, for 1.0 we're done: we > don't support JDK6 > For 0.98, I chatted offline with Enis & Stack, dropping the JDK6 support is > not a showstopper for them. > Andrew would be ok as well. > > So is it at least acceptable for all of us to drop the JDK6 support in 0.98 > and 1.0? > > Thanks, > > Nicolas > > > > > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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) >>
