Even more than vendors supporting Java 7, the move of Mahout to Java 7 is predicated on users of Hadoop (and Mahout) dropping Java 6.
I still see significant numbers of MapR customers with Java 6 as a corporate standard. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]>wrote: > Mahout moving to Java 7 is subject to the different Hadoop vendors > supporting Java 7 with their distros. As Andrew's mentioned, Mahout builds > with 1.7 already. > > > > > > On Friday, March 21, 2014 12:04 AM, Andrew Musselman < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think it's a priority but stuff builds with Java 7 already. > > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 8:32 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hey Guys,I'm curious whether there's any plans to move to jdk 1.7 for > the 1.0 release or if this is more effort than what is planned. Seems > like a lot of people are moving to 1.7 and wanted to understand whether > there's a need.Regards >
