+1 -----Original Message----- From: Zhou, Richard [mailto:richard.z...@intel.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 9:31 AM To: dev@sqoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Dropping support for JDK6
+1 Regards Richard -----Original Message----- From: Abraham Elmahrek [mailto:a...@cloudera.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 5:07 AM To: dev@sqoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Dropping support for JDK6 +1 On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Venkat Ranganathan < vranganat...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > +1 > > > > > On 7/28/15, 8:24 AM, "Jarek Jarcec Cecho" <jar...@gmail.com on behalf > of jar...@apache.org> wrote: > > >Hi All, > >JDK6 has been officially put end of life by Oracle more then 2 years > >ago > (February 2013). Other projects in Hadoop ecosystems have already > dropped > JDK6 support - for example Hadoop [1], HBase [2] or Pig[3] and hence I > would like to kick off discussion to do the same in Sqoop as well. > > > >What exactly that would mean for our users: > >* User would need to use at least JDK7 on the runtime - we’re > >spawning > mapreduce job, so entire cluster would have to be running on at least > JDK7 > > > >What would that mean for Sqoop developers: > >* We would change our build scripts to use -source and -target 1.7 > >[4] > preventing the compilation with JDK6 > >* We could use JDK7 specific language features in the source code [5] > > > >What do you think? > > > >Jarcec > > > >Links: > >1: http://markmail.org/thread/ytisa4w73ym4ee65 > >2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11666 > >3: http://markmail.org/message/4pdyv22bimh5ae7n > >4: > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.htm > l > >5: > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/enhance > ments.html >
