I understand the concern about cutting out users who still use Java 6, and I don't have numbers about how many people are still using Java 6.
But I want to say at a high level that I support deprecating older versions of stuff to reduce our maintenance burden and let us use more modern patterns in our code. Maintenance always costs way more than initial development over the lifetime of a project, and for that reason "anti-support" is just as important as support. (On that note, I think Python 2.6 should be next on the chopping block sometime later this year, but that's for another thread.) Nick On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:03 PM Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > This has been discussed a few times in the past, but now Oracle has ended > support for Java 6 for over a year, I wonder if we should just drop Java 6 > support. > > There is one outstanding issue Tom has brought to my attention: PySpark on > YARN doesn't work well with Java 7/8, but we have an outstanding pull > request to fix that. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6869 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1920 >
