Re: [DISCUSS] java 9 and the future of cassandra on the jdk

2018-03-20 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:26:30 -0500, you wrote: >So this is basically Oracle imposing a rapid upgrade path on free users to >force them to buy commercial to get LTS stability? > >This will probably shake out in the community somehow. Cassandra is complex >but we are small fry in the land of IT

Re: [DISCUSS] java 9 and the future of cassandra on the jdk

2018-03-21 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:04:39 +0100, you wrote: >There's also another option, which I just want to mention here for the >sake of discussion. > >Quoting the Oracle Support Roadmap: >"Instead of relying on a pre-installed standalone JRE, we encourage >application developers to deliver JREs with

Re: [DISCUSS] java 9 and the future of cassandra on the jdk

2018-03-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:52:51 +, you wrote: >Java 8 was marked as EOL in the middle of last year, I hope we wouldn't >require it for Cassandra 4. At this point I feel like we should already be >targeting Java 10 at a minimum. Given that the last messages indicated aiming Cassandra 4 for the

Re: [DISCUSS] java 9 and the future of cassandra on the jdk

2018-03-21 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:52:06 -0400, you wrote: >> Even if you are not running say Debian, or RedHat, those distributions >> will be backporting critical fixes to their JVMs; This work is going >> to be done, and will be available to anyone. >This would certainly mitigate a lot of the core

Re: [DISCUSS] java 9 and the future of cassandra on the jdk

2018-03-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:54:23 +, you wrote: >I think Michael is right. It would be impossible to make everyone follow >such a fast release scheme, and supporting it will be pressured onto the >various distributions, M$ and Apple. >On the other hand https://adoptopenjdk.net has already done a

Re: Dropping Python 3.6 support in 4.1

2022-04-06 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 12:20:49 +0100, you wrote: >I would strongly recommend keeping Python 3.6 compatibility until >2024-06-30 when the CentOS 7 maintenance updates is stopped. I would point out that the RHEL 8.* (as seen on Rocky Linux 8.5) releases come with Python 3.6 and I don't see anything