Hello,
Reading the message about the 0.11 version being prepared, I downloaded
the master branch.
Apache Zeppelin should pruned enough to prepare a move allowing it to be
able to execute in the current active version: Java 17
Who can execute it, today, with Java 1.8?
Who has still on its computer Java 1.8, first? And Scala 2.11, and
Hadoop 2.7, and... ?
What about leaving many of them?
Leaving all the old versions to 0.10 and lower, and keeping only the
last one for the next version?
Even the last version of each plugable tool or langage version might be
currently the most updated already (scala 2.13 is now recommended for
Spark 3.x, for example, and scala 2.12 is provided). So why bothering
keeping those preventing Apache Zeppelin to upgrade to Java 17?
What cannot be receive easily (in next months) a version supporting Java
17 should be immediately removed, I think. What future does it have?
It surely blocks other upgrades.
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Apache Zeppelin is a nice project that has been helpful for the Java and
Scala community. It could be again.
But yet, it is stuck, and it cannot be repaired, I think, if the parts
that cannot be upgraded aren't removed from it.
Marc Le Bihan
