+1 for Java 8 On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Dwight Gunning <dgunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A JIRA exists for this > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/ARROW-2015 > > We were in agreement in principle on the migration - but when it was > created there were a lot of focus on the 0.9 release. > > No reason not to begin now > > Dwight > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 23, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Li Jin <ice.xell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I don't see particular reason to maintaining JDK 7 compatibility, and am > +1 > > to move to Java 8. > > > >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Andy Grove <andy.gr...@rms.com> wrote: > >> > >> I’m trying to use the parquet-arrow library, which has just been updated > >> to use Arrow 0.8.0 but unfortunately I am still running into this issue: > >> > >> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.arrow.vector.types. > >> pojo.ArrowType$Struct_ > >> > >> The class in the arrow jar is actually `Struct` not `Struct_`. > >> > >> This is due to Arrow using JDK 7 and Parquet using JDK 8. > >> > >> I have confirmed this on my forks and have submitted a PR to upgrade > Arrow > >> to JDK 1.8 but the CI tests are running against both JDK 7 and 8 and > >> obviously the JDK 7 tests are failing. > >> > >> Is there any reason for maintaining JDK 7 compatibility? JDK 7 end of > life > >> was 3 years ago. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Andy. > >> > >> >
