I am generally in favor of this for obvious reasons like EOL of Java 7. We do have to do some investigation of whether dropping support for Java 7 will align well with the rest of the Hadoop ecosystem. This is important for various distributions that include Apache Knox.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Sumit Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to going to Java 8. > > There was some work done earlier to make sure that the code compiles and > tests pass with Java 8 so hopefully all we need to do is change the build. > But regardless of the work needed, it is something we should slate for the > next Knox release (probably 0.10.0 or 1.0.0 whatever it might be). > > Thanks for bringing this discussion up. > > Sumit. > > > On 7/27/16, 5:13 AM, "Jérôme LELEU" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >This is a pre-requisite to upgrade to pac4j v1.9 (and j2e-pac4j v1.3), but > >I think it's a more general concern for the project. > > > >Java 7 was EOL in April 2015, my feeling is that we should upgrade to Java > >8. > > > >I rebuild the whole source code using Java 8 without any problem (I did > >not > >run the tests though). > > > >What do you think? > > > >Thanks. > >Best regards, > >Jérôme > >
