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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-5475: ---------------------------------- Eh, wait a sec, those tests are for testing Java 8 lambda support in Spark, which isn't at all redundant. They compile and run fine. Are you using Java 8? and setting {{-Pjava8-tests}? > Java 8 tests are like maintenance overhead. > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-5475 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5475 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Prashant Sharma > > Having tests that validate the same code compatible with java 8 and java 7 is > like asserting that java 8 is backward compatible with java 7 and still > supports java 8 features(lambda expressions to be precise). This was once > necessary as asm was not compatible with java 8 and so on. > Running java8-tests on the current code base results in more than 100 > compilation errors, it felt as if they are never run. This is based on the > fact that compilation errors have existed for a pretty long period. So IMHO, > we should really remove them, if we don't plan to maintain. > Thoughts? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org