On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 06:59PM, jay vyas wrote: > Im not casting a vote :BUT thinking out loud: > > If bigtop is really the "fedora" of bigdata distros, then moving to Java 7 > is the natural thing to do.
I beg to differ: Bigtop is a Debian of bigdata ;) Agree with the rest though. However, the question is about timing. I'd say: we can try to give it a full build attempt using nothing but JDK7 and see how the things are going. If something breaks - we can do 0.8.1. which will only be focused on JDK7 upgrade. Thought? > Fedora integrates the trailblazing linux technology - without fear of > consequences.... and I see BigTop as doing the exact same thing in the > hadoop community. > > For me -- BigTop is a platform to innovate and do cool new stuff on -- so I > say keep it that way and keep fearlessly moving forward :) > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > based on Andrew P. suggestion I bumped the > > version of JDK6 to the latest update (45) and > > it seems to have cured the HBase problem. > > > > As a side note: for a deprecated, unsupported > > platform such as JDK6 there's no reason to use > > anything but the latest version anyway. > > > > But even with that, we still do have quite a few > > failures in various components (Hive, Pig, etc.). > > > > How do we attack it? Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Roman. > > > > > > -- > jay vyas
