What's changed since the last time we discussed these issues, about 7 months ago? Or, another way to formulate the question: What are the threshold criteria that we should use to decide when to end Scala 2.10 and/or Java 7 support?
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I'd like to gauge where people stand on the issue of dropping support for > a few things that were considered for 2.0. > > First: Scala 2.10. We've seen a number of build breakages this week > because the PR builder only tests 2.11. No big deal at this stage, but, it > did cause me to wonder whether it's time to plan to drop 2.10 support, > especially with 2.12 coming soon. > > Next, Java 7. It's reasonably old and out of public updates at this stage. > It's not that painful to keep supporting, to be honest. It would simplify > some bits of code, some scripts, some testing. > > Hadoop versions: I think the the general argument is that most anyone > would be using, at the least, 2.6, and it would simplify some code that has > to reflect to use not-even-that-new APIs. It would remove some moderate > complexity in the build. > > > "When" is a tricky question. Although it's a little aggressive for minor > releases, I think these will all happen before 3.x regardless. 2.1.0 is not > out of the question, though coming soon. What about ... 2.2.0? > > > Although I tend to favor dropping support, I'm mostly asking for current > opinions. >
