Let's be specific: which Java-1.7-only feature is motivating this change? Without knowing the upside I am inclined to vote no because of the number of platforms that I regularly see that are running java 1.6.
Adam On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > Given all the previous discussions about this, and assuming all points > and counterpoints have already been sufficiently enumerated, I'd like > to put it to a vote, explicitly: > > Should we switch to JDK 1.7 for Accumulo 1.6.0, to take advantage of > newer features (ACCUMULO-905), or should we continue to require that > Accumulo 1.6.0 run on JRE 1.6? > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii >
