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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote: > My current java is 1.6.0_38, i have no problem building. > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Andrew Palumbo <ap....@outlook.com> 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 you're right- my big concern is that on our (probably outdated) building 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: dlie...@gmail.com >> > To: dev@mahout.apache.org >> > >> > 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 <ap....@outlook.com> >> 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 >> > > >> >> > >
