Holy Cow!  I have never seen such a complex travis config!

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 6:54 PM Gian Merlino <[email protected]> wrote:

> I should have linked Druid's Travis config file for reference. Here it is:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/blob/master/.travis.yml
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 6:53 PM Gian Merlino <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > So what exactly is the requirement?  Our DataSketches code does compile
> > > under JDK8 and we have lots of customers and users using JDK 8.
> >
> > It depends on who you ask, I guess :)
> >
> > From Druid's perspective, we aren't going to be compiling your code, only
> > running it. So the only requirement we would ask for is that the code
> > _runs_ under a Java 11 runtime. Being able to compile under Java 11 is
> good
> > for future-proofing your code, though. It is starting to become more
> > prevalent.
> >
> > > It sounds like (as far as Unsafe is concerned) converting all the
> direct
> > > unsafe.blah() calls to static MethodHandle.invoke calls is what is
> > required.
> > >
> > > Is this correct?
> >
> > That is certainly part of it, I'm not 100% sure if that's all that's
> > needed. Btw, CI can help verify. In Druid's Travis config, we run our
> tests
> > on both JDK 8 and JDK 11. In order to make this automated testing easier,
> > we chose to do the work needed to compile Druid on JDK 11, even though we
> > still compile release builds using JDK 8 only. (If we hadn't done this
> > work, then we'd have to compile on 8 and test on 11, which Travis doesn't
> > easily support.)
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 5:51 PM leerho <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, Gian, this is VERY helpful!
> >>
> >> From my cursory glance, it appears that UnsafeUtil acquires Unsafe and
> >> Unsafe-class the usual way using reflection (I didn't think this would
> >> work
> >> with 9+ ), and then defines some method-handles that the other classes
> >> use.
> >>
> >> Will this approach allow code to compile under JDK11 and JDK8?
> >>
> >> It also seems that compiling with JDK11 is still a work in progress as
> the
> >> pom.xml clearly specifies JDK8.
> >>
> >> So what exactly is the requirement?  Our DataSketches code does compile
> >> under JDK8 and we have lots of customers and users using JDK 8.
> >>
> >> It sounds like (as far as Unsafe is concerned) converting all the direct
> >> unsafe.blah() calls to static MethodHandle.invoke calls is what is
> >> required.
> >>
> >> Is this correct?
> >>
> >> Lee.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:07 PM Gian Merlino <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > And nobody should be using the Oracle JDK without a commercial
> >> relationship
> >> > with Oracle, its license is a nightmare.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:04 PM Gian Merlino <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Oracle and OpenJDK builds behave the same as each other now. The
> >> > > differences are in terms of licensing, length of support, and
> release
> >> > > cadence. IMO most Java devs should be using one of the third-party
> >> > OpenJDK
> >> > > distributions (e.g. Corretto, Zulu, AdoptOpenJDK) rather than
> vanilla
> >> > > OpenJDK these days, because of the new OpenJDK policy that public
> >> updates
> >> > > will cease for major versions after 6 months.
> >> > >
> >> > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:07 AM leerho <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Thanks, Gian,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Your references are helpful and I am studying them.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I didn't see any references to OpenJDK vs Oracle's JDKs.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Are there any differences in the way Unsafe calls (or other hidden
> >> > >> classes)
> >> > >> are handled by OpenJDK?  Or is this a "don't care" as far as Druid
> is
> >> > >> concerned?  Are the version numbers between Oracle and OpenJDK
> always
> >> > >> aligned?
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Lee.
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM Gian Merlino <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> > You didn't address this message to me, but in Druid most of the
> >> work
> >> > for
> >> > >> > Java 9+ compatibility is mentioned in this master issue, which
> you
> >> > might
> >> > >> > find helpful:
> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/issues/5589.
> >> > >> > Skimming the list, these might be particularly relevant to
> >> > DataSketches:
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > - https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/7487 (cleaner
> >> > >> operations)
> >> > >> > - https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/7466
> (ByteBuffer
> >> > unmap
> >> > >> > operation)
> >> > >> > - https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/pull/7576 (Remove
> >> direct
> >> > >> > references to Unsafe)
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Btw, it would be better, I think, to address emails to the list
> at
> >> > >> large.
> >> > >> > It encourages more people to participate. If Roman is a
> subscriber
> >> he
> >> > >> would
> >> > >> > get a copy anyway. If not, you could encourage him to subscribe.
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 3:13 PM leerho <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > > Roman,
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > I hope you are doing well.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > I really appreciate the contributions you made to our Memory
> >> > >> component!
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > Given that Druid has made its code base compatible with OpenJDK
> >> 11,
> >> > we
> >> > >> > > could use your help in what changes do we need to make to make
> >> that
> >> > >> > happen
> >> > >> > > for DataSketches.  As I recall, our DataSketches library was
> not
> >> the
> >> > >> only
> >> > >> > > Druid dependency that took advantage of Unsafe.  So I assume
> you
> >> > have
> >> > >> > been
> >> > >> > > down this path :)
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > Currently, I have a check in the static initializer in
> >> > >> Memory/UnsafeUtil:
> >> > >> > > parseJavaVersion(...) that checks the string returned from
> >> > >> > > System.getProperty("java.version").  If that string does not
> >> contain
> >> > >> > "1.8"
> >> > >> > > or "8" it will throw an error.  Given that we have not tested
> >> with
> >> > >> JDK 9,
> >> > >> > > 10, 11 or 12, I felt it was safer to explicitly throw rather
> than
> >> > >> having
> >> > >> > > the users experience some weird failure later that may be
> >> difficult
> >> > to
> >> > >> > > debug.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > With only one minor exception (which we could easily fix) the
> >> Memory
> >> > >> > > component is the only place where Unsafe is used.  However, we
> do
> >> > use
> >> > >> > > reflection to gain internal access to a number of other classes
> >> > >> including
> >> > >> > > ByteBuffer, Cleaner, and Bits.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > Looking forward to hearing from you.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > Cheers,
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > Lee.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> >
> >> > >>
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
>

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