All, One clarification, I am speaking for 4.2, not 4.1.
Thanks, -John On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:04 AM, John Burwell <jburw...@basho.com> wrote: > Noa, > > I think of one very good reason -- as of this month, Java6 has been EOL'ed > [1] by Oracle (i.e. no more updates). Given the number of security issues > that have cropped in Java lately, it seems prudent, in my mind, to ensure > that the next release runs on an officially supported JRE. Also, OpenJDK 7 > is widely available for modern distributions (see openjdk-7 packages in > Ubuntu 12.04 and java-1.7.0-openjdk in RHEL/CentOS 6.3). > > Thanks, > -John > > [1]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Noa Resare <n...@spotify.com> wrote: > >> Unless someone comes with a very good argument to drop java 6 compatibility >> (and make a good case for it in in public and gather consensus) I would >> consider this a bug that needs to be fixed. >> >> /noa >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Chip Childers >> <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: >> >>> I didn't think that we agreed to bumping the java version to 7, and it >>> seems like that might make working with distros / packages difficult. >>> >>> Adding Alex and Frank to the CC to get their take. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:23:39PM +0100, Wido den Hollander wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> So the last couple of days the master branch wouldn't build on my >>> systems: >>>> >>>> [INFO] Apache CloudStack Framework - IPC ................. FAILURE >>> [1.874s] >>>> ... >>>> ... >>>> [INFO] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal >>>> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.5.1:compile >>>> (default-compile) on project cloud-framework-ipc: Compilation >>>> failure: Compilation failure: >>>> [ERROR] >>> /home/employee/wido/repos/cloudstack/framework/ipc/src/org/apache/cloudstack/framework/rpc/RpcServerCallImpl.java:[51,58] >>>> type parameters of <T>T cannot be determined; no unique maximal >>>> instance exists for type variable T with upper bounds >>>> T,java.lang.Object >>>> [ERROR] >>> /home/employee/wido/repos/cloudstack/framework/ipc/src/org/apache/cloudstack/framework/rpc/RpcClientCallImpl.java:[191,60] >>>> type parameters of <T>T cannot be determined; no unique maximal >>>> instance exists for type variable T with upper bounds >>>> T,java.lang.Object >>>> >>>> So I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.1 on all my systems (laptop, desktop, >>>> servers) and this is the maven information: >>>> >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~$ mvn -v >>>> Apache Maven 3.0.4 >>>> Maven home: /usr/share/maven >>>> Java version: 1.6.0_27, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. >>>> Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre >>>> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 >>>> OS name: "linux", version: "3.2.0-38-generic", arch: "amd64", family: >>> "unix" >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~$ >>>> >>>> Now, that Java version is old, I know, but it's the openjdk version >>>> which is in Ubuntu 12.04's repositories right now. >>>> >>>> I downloaded Java 7: >>>> >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~/repos/cloudstack$ JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.7.0_15" mvn >>> -v >>>> Apache Maven 3.0.4 >>>> Maven home: /usr/share/maven >>>> Java version: 1.7.0_15, vendor: Oracle Corporation >>>> Java home: /opt/jdk1.7.0_15/jre >>>> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 >>>> OS name: "linux", version: "3.2.0-38-generic", arch: "amd64", family: >>> "unix" >>>> wido@wido-desktop:~/repos/cloudstack$ >>>> >>>> With that Java version the master branch builds just fine. >>>> >>>> >>>> What I want to discuss which version of Java we support. >>>> >>>> I'd say we support the LTS version of any major release of CentOS or >>> Ubuntu. >>>> >>>> I also understand that Java 6 is pretty old, so what do we do? >>>> >>>> Wido >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Engineering Experience, Infrastructure tribe, Spotify >
