Re: Dropping Java 6 and 7 support

+1 on removing java 6 and 7. Regards, Berthold Reinwald IBM Almaden Research Center office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208 e-mail: reinw...@us.ibm.com From: Matthias Boehm To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Date: 03/06/2017 10:58 PM Subject:Dropping

Dropping Java 6 and 7 support

Hi all, I'd like to drop the support for Java 6 and 7 in our SystemML 1.0 release. Our build still refers to a java compliance level 6, which has not been changed for more than 5 years now. Spark >= 1.5 anyway requires Java 7 and there has been some discussion on removing Java 7 as well because

Re: Release cadence

+1 for SystemML 1.0 as the next release. On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Deron Eriksson wrote: > Personally I would like the next release to be 1.0. We have been an > incubator project since November 2015 and I believe that after over 1,000 > commits since then that

Re: Release cadence

I am not in disagreement with Matthias' point regarding removing code which no longer need to be supported and need additional effort to do maintenance.At the same time we need to avoid burden on users. Burden on users should be avoided at possible extent. We have recently released SystemML