Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Ted Dunning
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Suneel Marthi wrote: > It should work fine with Java 1.7. Mahout's presently at Lucene 4.6.x and > Lucene versions >= 4.7 mandate JDK 1.7. > For what it's worth, the current version of Lucene is 4.9.

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
n official version. Or as I said just make a quick fix on the building > from source page. > > > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:21:36 -0700 > > Subject: Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > > From: dlie...@gmail.com > > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > > >

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Suneel Marthi
econd-order and deeper, not immediate. > Did > > you try to compile it yet? > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Andrew Palumbo > wrote: > > > > > also sorry- btw- I assuming 1500 will be merged.. > > > > > > &

RE: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew Palumbo
uick fix on the building from source page. > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:21:36 -0700 > Subject: Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > From: dlie...@gmail.com > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > > I am not sure if it actually would require 1.7 to build either, since my > understanding depe

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
t; > From: ap@outlook.com > > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > > Subject: RE: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:56:39 -0400 > > > > oracle? > > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:54:43 -0700 > > > Subject: Re: Requiri

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Ted Dunning
My own feeling is that 1.6 is finally dying out and officially moving to 1.7 allows some nice capabilities which assist in writing reliable code. Of the major changes, here are my reactions after about a year of using 1.7 seriously: IO and New IO - The nio package is significantly better and more

RE: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew Palumbo
also sorry- btw- I assuming 1500 will be merged.. > From: ap@outlook.com > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > Subject: RE: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:56:39 -0400 > > oracle? > > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:54:43 -0700 > > Subject:

RE: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew Palumbo
oracle? > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:54:43 -0700 > Subject: Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > From: dlie...@gmail.com > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > > or testing. > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > > > My current java is

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
to push or > require 1.7. > > Just checking our bases, so I'll drop it if there's no problem here. > > Thanks > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:33:19 -0700 > > Subject: Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > > From: dlie...@gmail.com > > To

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
mething about being limited to our current lucene version >> though by 1.6 so i am wondering if this is may be a good time to push or >> require 1.7. >> >> Just checking our bases, so I'll drop it if there's no problem here. >> >> Thanks >> >

RE: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew Palumbo
0700 > Subject: Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout > From: dlie...@gmail.com > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > > the only problem is that we are not really requiring it. We are not using > anything of 1.7 functionality. If people compile (as i do) Mahout, they can > compile any bytecode ver

Re: Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
the only problem is that we are not really requiring it. We are not using anything of 1.7 functionality. If people compile (as i do) Mahout, they can compile any bytecode version they want. There are some 1.7 artifact dependencies in H20 but 1.7 would be required at run time only and only if the p

Requiring Java 1.7 for Mahout

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew Palumbo
As far as I can tell there should be no problems with declaring Java 1.7 as the official minimum Java version for building and running Mahout. Are there any objections to this or problems that I am missing? Andy