There's always a tradeoff we need to make. I'm in favor of upgrading to Java 8 to bring in all new Java features.
The common way I've seen (and I agree) other software upgrading major things like this is 1) upgrade for next big release without backward compatibility and notify everyone 2) maintain and patch current, old-tech compatible version at a reasonably limited scope. Building backward compatibility is too much for an open sourced project On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote: > I've put it also on our Twitter account: > https://twitter.com/ApacheFlink/status/842015062667755521 > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Martin Neumann <martin.neum...@ri.se> > wrote: > > > I think this easier done in a straw poll than in an email conversation. > > I created one at: http://www.strawpoll.me/12535073 > > (Note that you have multiple choices.) > > > > > > Though I prefer Java 8 most of the time I have to work on Java 7. A lot > of > > the infrastructure I work on still runs Java 7, one of the companies I > > build a prototype for a while back just updated to Java 7 2 years ago. I > > doubt we can ditch Java 7 support any time soon if we want to make it > easy > > for companies to use Flink. > > > > cheers Martin > > > > //PS sorry if this gets sent twice, we just migrated to a new mail system > > and a lot of things are broken > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:30:24 PM > > To: user@flink.apache.org; d...@flink.apache.org > > Subject: [POLL] Who still uses Java 7 with Flink ? > > > > Hi all! > > > > I would like to get a feeling how much Java 7 is still being used among > > Flink users. > > > > At some point, it would be great to drop Java 7 support and make use of > > Java 8's new features, but first we would need to get a feeling how much > > Java 7 is still used. > > > > Would be happy if users on Java 7 respond here, or even users that have > > some insights into how widespread they think Java 7 still is. > > > > Thanks, > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > >
