Should we throw a Debian version in for good measure? https://github.com/apache/impala/search?q=debian
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 9:19 AM, Lars Volker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > With the automatic commit flow to the 2.x branch being disabled, I'd like > to suggest that we deprecate support for some older operating systems on > the 3.x branch. This would allow us to get rid of almost all the checks in > common/config.h.in as well as some workarounds in the code. It would also > simplify the upcoming rebase of the KRPC code (IMPALA-7006). > > I'd like to propose that we pick Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 6.8, and SLES 12 as > the minimum operating system versions on which Impala has to compile and > pass all tests. I'd also like to deprecate support for Java 7 and require > Java 8 for all changes going forward. To my knowledge these are the minimum > versions that people use for development and deployment of the 3.x branch. > > I'm curious what others think. > > Cheers, Lars >
