My current java is 1.6.0_38, i have no problem building.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Andrew Palumbo <[email protected]> wrote: > you're right- my big concern is that on our (probably outdated) building > from source page we have 1.6 listed: > > http://mahout.apache.org/developers/buildingmahout.html > > The obvious simple fix here is to make the quick change on the webpage to > 1.7 in order to build and test successfully. > > I do remember something about being limited to our current lucene version > though by 1.6 so i am wondering if this is may be a good time to push or > require 1.7. > > Just checking our bases, so I'll drop it if there's no problem here. > > Thanks > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:33:19 -0700 > > Subject: Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > > > the only problem is that we are not really requiring it. We are not using > > anything of 1.7 functionality. If people compile (as i do) Mahout, they > can > > compile any bytecode version they want. > > > > There are some 1.7 artifact dependencies in H20 but 1.7 would be required > > at run time only and only if the people are actually using h2obindings as > > dependency (which i expect majority would not care for). > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Palumbo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > As far as I can tell there should be no problems with declaring Java > 1.7 > > > as the official minimum Java version for building and running Mahout. > Are > > > there any objections to this or problems that I am missing? > > > > > > Andy > > > > >
