Thanks for the input folks. I'll go ahead and get started on making the necessary changes.
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Hitesh Shah <hit...@apache.org> wrote: > To clarify, my main point was that to run Tez 0.8 with java7 features > would need the hadoop cluster to be running with java7 ( or atleast support > a way for the YARN containers to use a different java version i.e java7 ). > Users on older versions of hadoop running java6 would likely not be able > to run a future version of Tez ( even though Tez would be sort-of > “compatible" with that older hadoop version except for the java version > issue ). > > I still think it is good idea to move to java 7 but it does mean that we > are going to be dropping support for certain users ( hopefully most of them > are not running with java6 ). > > thanks > — Hitesh > > On May 16, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Gopal Vijayaraghavan <gop...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi Hitesh, > > > > I think you took Prakash¹s question to be a statement. > > > > What is being suggested here is not "we drop support for all older hadoop > > versions² - but is really ³switch to the same version² as every > downstream > > project. > > > > Let me repeat - we are *NOT* dropping support for older hadoop versions, > > we are upping the minimum JDK version you can run the whole ecosystem on. > > > > For that measure, the Upstream sourceVersions don¹t matter, what matters > > are downstream sourceVersions of tools which use Tez. > > > > Cheers, > > Gopal > > > > On 5/16/15, 12:07 PM, "Hitesh Shah" <hit...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> Excellent point @Prakash. I would probably change my vote to a -0 on > that > >> point itself. > >> > >> It might be easier to say drop java6 support but harder to say we drop > >> support for all older hadoop versions that need/support java 6. > >> > >> ‹ Hitesh > >> > >> On May 15, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Prakash Ramachandran > >> <pramachand...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > >> > >>> +1 non-binding on dropping 1.6. However given that we compile against > >>> hadoop2.4 and hadoop2.2 which has requireJavaVersion 1.6 will it be an > >>> issue? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 5/16/15, 3:54 AM, "Hitesh Shah" <hit...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> +1 on dropping 1.6 support from 0.8.0 onwards. > >>>> > >>>> @Mohammad, Hadoop is dropping support for 1.6 from 2.7.0 onwards. I am > >>>> guessing other ecosystem projects will soon follow suit. > >>>> > >>>> ‹ Hitesh > >>>> > >>>> On May 15, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Mohammad Islam <misla...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi Sid, > >>>>> What are the statuses of other Hadoop projects? > >>>>> > >>>>> Overall, I'm +1 on this. > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> Mohammad > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Friday, May 15, 2015 10:57 AM, Siddharth Seth <ss...@apache.org> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Java 6 support ended quite a while ago. Trying to support it gets in > >>>>> the way of using libraries which may work with Java 7 only (Netty for > >>>>> example in TEZ-2450). I think we should move Tez 0.8 to work with > Java > >>>>> 7 as the minimum version. Thoughts ? > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> - Sid > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >> > > > > > >
