+1 non-binding on dropping 1.6. However given that we compile against hadoop2.4 and hadoop2.2 which has requireJavaVersion 1.6 will it be an issue?
On 5/16/15, 3:54 AM, "Hitesh Shah" <[email protected]> wrote: >+1 on dropping 1.6 support from 0.8.0 onwards. > >@Mohammad, Hadoop is dropping support for 1.6 from 2.7.0 onwards. I am >guessing other ecosystem projects will soon follow suit. > >— Hitesh > >On May 15, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Sid, >> What are the statuses of other Hadoop projects? >> >> Overall, I'm +1 on this. >> Regards, >> Mohammad >> >> >> >> On Friday, May 15, 2015 10:57 AM, Siddharth Seth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Java 6 support ended quite a while ago. Trying to support it gets in the way >> of using libraries which may work with Java 7 only (Netty for example in >> TEZ-2450). I think we should move Tez 0.8 to work with Java 7 as the minimum >> version. Thoughts ? >> >> Thanks >> - Sid >> >> >
