Hadoop 3 is Java 8 only. I believe older versions run on Java 8 as well. We should be able to de-link the Hadoop version discussion from the Java 8 discussion, as long as the min Hadoop version supports java 8.
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Hitesh Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > How do we want to decide on what is the minimum version of hadoop that will > be supported by master? Will that impact the java8 choice? > > -- Hitesh > > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:15 AM, zhiyuan yang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I’m +1 for this. This is a must to make Tez work with Hadoop 3.0. Hadoop > > 3.0 already use Java 8 and some dependencies shared by Tez also requires > > Java 8 in new version, such as guava 21.0. > > > > Thanks! > > Zhiyuan > > > On May 3, 2017, at 5:57 PM, Siddharth Seth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Java7 was EOLd about 2 years ago. Should we move master to use Java8? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sid > > > > >
