+1 Thanks,
Niketan Pansare IBM Almaden Research Center E-mail: npansar At us.ibm.com http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-npansar From: Berthold Reinwald/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Date: 03/06/2017 11:16 PM Subject: Re: Dropping Java 6 and 7 support +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
