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Mike Dusenberry GitHub: github.com/dusenberrymw LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mikedusenberry Sent from my iPhone. > On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Niketan Pansare <npan...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > +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 > > Berthold Reinwald---03/06/2017 11:16:19 PM---+1 on removing java 6 and 7. > Regards, > > 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 > > > > > > >
