With a bit of hacking on the build we could cross-compile to avoid the type
related build failures that are creeping in as projects don't try compiling
with JDK 6 any longer.
$ javac -target 1.6 -bootclasspath /path/to/jdk/1.6/lib/rt.jar
Nasty to require a JDK 6 and 7 for building, though.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Peter Linnell <plinn...@apache.org> wrote:
> I thought Bigtop was the openSUSE of Big Data, moving foward without
> the of bleeding edge ;-)
>
> All joking aside, I am with Cos on this. Just the existence of Bigtop
> has pushed the larger ecosystem to think being their own little gardens
> and that includes dropping deprecated components.
>
> I can remember not so long ago we had to drag in Java 1.5 to build docs
> for some stuff.
>
> I am confortable with our cruising speed.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:15:38 -0700
> Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
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Best regards,
- Andy
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein
(via Tom White)
