Excellent point @Prakash. I would probably change my vote to a -0 on that point itself.
It might be easier to say drop java6 support but harder to say we drop support for all older hadoop versions that need/support java 6. — Hitesh On May 15, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Prakash Ramachandran <pramachand...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > +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" <hit...@apache.org> 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 <misla...@yahoo.com> 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 <ss...@apache.org> 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 >>> >>> >>
