+1 -----Original Message----- From: Julien Le Dem [mailto:jul...@twitter.com.INVALID] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:09 PM To: dev@pig.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Drop support for JDK 6 from Pig 0.14
+1 On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Rohini Palaniswamy <rohini.adi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Hadoop is dropping support for JDK6 from hadoop-2.7 this year as > mentioned in the mail below. Pig should also move to JDK7 to be able > to compile against future hadoop 2.x releases and start making > releases with jars (binaries, maven repo) compiled in JDK 7. This > would also open it up for developers to code with JDK7 specific APIs. > > Vote closes on Tuesday, Sep 23 2014. > > Thanks, > Rohini > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com <javascript:;>> > Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM > Subject: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop > To: "d...@hbase.apache.org <javascript:;>" <d...@hbase.apache.org > <javascript:;>>, d...@hive.apache.org <javascript:;>, > dev@pig.apache.org <javascript:;>, d...@oozie.apache.org <javascript:;> > Cc: "common-...@hadoop.apache.org <javascript:;>" < > common-...@hadoop.apache.org <javascript:;>> > > > [Apologies for the wide distribution.] > > Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities, > > We, over at Hadoop are considering dropping support for JDK6 this year. > > As you maybe aware we just released hadoop-2.5.0 and are now > considering making the next release i.e. hadoop-2.6.0 the *last* > release of Apache Hadoop which supports JDK6. This means, from > hadoop-2.7.0 onwards we will not support JDK6 anymore and we *may* start > relying on JDK7-specific apis. > > Now, the above releases a proposal and we do not want to pull the > trigger without talking to projects downstream - hence the request for > you feedback. > > Please feel free to forward this to other communities you might deem > to be at risk from this too. > > thanks, > Arun >
