+1 Looking forward to it
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Matthias Boehm <mboe...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >