Cool with Java 8. I was just playing safe (and being diplomatic :) ) by proposing >= Java 7. The Beam project is still on Java 7, but I agree that Java 7 is EOL.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I would recommend at this stage to consider Java 8 as the basis. In > NiFi our upcoming major release establishes java 8 as the baseline. I > believe the community went that route because: > > - It contains language features that are beneficial and that > developers wanted to use. > > - It can make it easier to accept PRs as you may find contributors > wanting to use those features so could be important for community > growth > > - Some popular dependency libraries have moved to Java 8 > > - Java 7 is EOL (https://java.com/en/download/faq/java_7.xml) > > As for coding standards I suspect there are projects that have taken a > stronger stance on this than we have in NiFi. But, the checkstyle > configuration we have seems to work out pretty well and is largely > based on Java standards plus what Accumulo had. So, you might want to > look around a bit to find a style that works well. > > As for preferred IDE - Good luck with that! I'm definitely in favor > of avoiding having an opinion here. By integrating things like > checkstyle, using Maven, and using Git then much of the need to have a > preference is eliminated in my experience. NiFi has have folks using > Eclipse, IntelliJ (admittedly seems to be the favorite), and Netbeans > (ok fine i might be the only one). But more importantly this is > something which is quite personal in terms of developer productivity > and I think there is value in the community avoiding having a > preferred IDE. > > Thanks > Joe > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been looking over the code the past week (mostly me getting > > familiarized with the project), I did not notice that the coding > standards > > are more in line with what Eclipse enforces (which is barely anything). > > > > I think all committers should be using IntelliJ for coding, u get an > Apache > > committer's license from Jetbrains for the Ultimate edition of IntelliJ - > > > > <goog_1576328420> > > https://www.jetbrains.com/shop/eform/apache?product=ALL > > > > The coding standards are pretty standard across most Apache Java > projects - > > we could follow NiFi on this. > > > > Also what would be the minimal supported JDK for Pirk ? We shuld baseline > > at Java >= 7 IMO. >
