Perhaps relevant: Hadoop is moving toward dropping Java6 in next release. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10530
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah it is a little bit silly that people are still using Java 6. > > I guess this is a tradeoff--being more conservative in our java support > means more people can use our software, whereas upgrading gives us > developers a better experience since we aren't stuck with ancient stuff. > > Nonetheless I would argue for being a bit conservative here. Sadly a > shocking number of people are still using Java 6. The Kafka clients get > embedded in applications all over the place, and likely having even one > application not yet upgraded would block adopting the new Kafka version > that dropped java 6 support. So unless there is something in Java 7 we > really really want I think it might be good to hold out a bit. > > As an example we dropped java 6 support in Samza and immediately had people > blocked by that, and unlike the Kafka clients, Samza use is pretty > centralized. > > -Jay > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > > > This has been coming up in a lot of projects and for other reasons too I > > wanted to kick off the discussion about if/when we end support for Java > 6. > > Besides any API we may want to use in >= 7 we also compile our binaries > for > > 6 for release currently. > > > > /******************************************* > > Joe Stein > > Founder, Principal Consultant > > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > > http://www.stealth.ly > > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > > ********************************************/ > > >
