+1. Definitely makes sense for SystemML 1.0. In the Spark documentation: "Note that support for Java 7 is deprecated as of Spark 2.0.0 and may be removed in Spark 2.2.0."
Deron On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:15 PM, Berthold Reinwald <reinw...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > +1 on removing java 6 and 7. > > Regards, > Berthold Reinwald > IBM Almaden Research Center > office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208 > e-mail: reinw...@us.ibm.com > > > > From: Matthias Boehm <mboe...@googlemail.com> > To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org > Date: 03/06/2017 10:58 PM > Subject: Dropping Java 6 and 7 support > > > > Hi all, > > I'd like to drop the support for Java 6 and 7 in our SystemML 1.0 release. > Our build still refers to a java compliance level 6, which has not been > changed for more than 5 years now. Spark >= 1.5 anyway requires Java 7 and > there has been some discussion on removing Java 7 as well because it > reached end of life in April 2015. Moving to Java 8 would allow us to > modernize the code base going forward and the 1.0 release would be the > perfect time for this change. > > Regards, > Matthias > > > > > -- Deron Eriksson Spark Technology Center http://www.spark.tc/
