+1 on dropping support for Java 6 and Java 7. Arvind Surve | Spark Technology Center | http://www.spark.tc/
From: Nakul Jindal <naku...@gmail.com> To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:27 AM Subject: Re: Dropping Java 6 and 7 support +1 -Nakul On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:13 AM, <dusenberr...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >