Yes this should be changed to 1.7. On 4/20/15, 10:22 AM, "Sumit Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sorry for the late reply. > >+1 on going to 1.7 as a minimum. Just a question on an associated pom >entry. Should our root pom now be changed to reflect this? > >Right now we have this: > ><plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> > <version>3.1</version> > <configuration> > <compilerId>javac</compilerId> > <source>1.6</source> > <target>1.6</target> > <debug>true</debug> > <!-- > <verbose>true</verbose> > <forceJavacCompilerUse>true</forceJavacCompilerUse> > <fork>true</fork> > --> > </configuration> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId> > <artifactId>plexus-compiler-javac</artifactId> > <version>2.3</version> > </dependency> > </dependencies> ></plugin> > > > >On 4/11/15, 11:56 AM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>All - >> >>After committing the changes for KNOX-509 - KnoxSSO - we have a minimum >>jdk >>requirement of 1.7. >> >>The apache jenkins job failed due to the dependency from the nimbus jwt >>library on 1.7. >> >>I changed the jenkins configuration and rebuilt and it is stable again. >> >>Apparently Hadoop common is running with 1.7 since I added the nimbus >>library as a dependency there as well and there has been no related >>failures. >> >>I think it is time that we drop 1.6 support - especially given that it is >>EOL'd by Oracle since 2013. >> >>So, I propose that our minimum JRE version be 1.7 in 0.6.0, that we MUST >>be >>able to build with 1.7 and also run on JRE 1.8. >> >>We will need to address our building with JDK 1.8 (and tests) in a follow >>up release. >> >>Thoughts? >> >>thanks, >> >>--larry >
