+1, would be nice to jump to 8 since 7 is now eol, but deprecating 6 support is a good start
-Jake On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Colin P. McCabe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > What do y'all think about moving our minJdk version to JDK7? > > It is set at JDK6 right now mostly because that was where Hadoop was > stuck for a long time. But now Hadoop is on JDK7, and so is HBase. > Is there any reason to keep supporting JDK6 in our next release? There > are some nice things in JDK7 like ThreadLocalRandom, > try-with-resources, etc. and I would hate to ugly up the code for no > reason. > > best, > Colin >
