Github user rmetzger commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/296#issuecomment-69552932
Hi,
I agree that the message is not correct. Flink will run very well with Java
6.
BUT: I think we should print a warning because Java 6 is EOL. It is
actually a security issue to run java 6 because it isn't patched anymore.
So I would certainly vote for having a warning.
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