+1 Makes sense to me. I'm assuming we're talking 3.5+ here, right? We would continue to support jdk6 in 3.4?
Patrick On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Flavio Junqueira <fpjunque...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > +1 for supporting only 7 or later. > > >> On 12 Dec 2014, at 21:28, Hongchao Deng <hd...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have been working on Netty + SSL and one of the changes I do is change >> outgoingQueue to be LinkedBlockingDeque, which requires JDK 6. >> >> As Flavio (fpj) and Patrick (phunt) suggested, there are JIRAs discussing >> JDK7: ZOOKEEPER-2046, ZOOKEEPER-1963. It seems many people are interested >> in an upgrade to JDK 7. >> >> As we know, JDK 6 stops public updates. Making JDK 7 the minimum of >> ZooKeeper going forward will drive us up-to-date and less work on >> supporting older versions of JDK. >> >> I am raising this topic here to gather public responses. The question is >> simple: should we make JDK 7 the minimum support version? Your advice, >> ideas, suggestions are highly welcome and appreciated! >> >> -- >> *- Hongchao Deng* >> *Software Engineer* >
