Java 9 will shut people out as 8 is not yet eol. The majority of the installations I have seen are running 8 and people are moving from 7 to 8. Other projects in our space are also moving to 8.
> On Jan 19, 2018, at 8:31 AM, Vlad Rozov <vro...@apache.org> wrote: > > +1. It will be good to start supporting Java 9. > > Thank you, > > Vlad > > On 1/18/18 11:01, Hitesh Kapoor wrote: >> +1. >> >> --Hitesh >> >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Ananth G <ananthg.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I was wondering if we can consider making java 8 as the minimum supported >>> idk version going forward. >>> >>> Since Apex core is moving to the next release cycle, perhaps we consider >>> this ? My assumption is that the next release version for core after the >>> 3.7.0 release is going to be a major version bump ? >>> >>> My understanding is that core needs to move to idk 8 before we can move >>> library/malhar to idk 8. >>> >>> Here are some points to consider (There might be more points to the list >>> below) : >>> >>> - Java 7 has been deprecated from a support model more than 2 years back >>> - Peer streaming frameworks like Flink are mandating Java 8 >>> - Apache Beam is moving to Java 8 from its next release cycle >>> - Many hadoop vendors provide java 8 as the base for the platform. >>> - Will help the community to use java8 streams and lambdas in operators and >>> core >>> - There are certain maven dependencies which might be more optimal if java8 >>> dependency is inherited as opposed to java 7version of the dependencies >>> - Junit5 might help in richer unit tests. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ananth >>> >
