+1. Colm.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1. Compliance with other Hadoop ecosystems is very important. > > Regards, > Mohammad > > > On Monday, September 18, 2017, 10:47:53 AM PDT, Sandeep More < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > That's a good point Larry ! I was thinking for the new features, but yes > back-porting would be a pain I agree. > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:32 PM, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Sandeep - > > > > This is a good point and I should try and set expectations here properly. > > I think that it would be good practice to be careful about where we add > > Java 8 specifics. > > > > I would propose that we should limit this use to new features. > > This will help minimize the pain in backports to previous releases that > > community members need to continue to support. > > > > I would not like to see changes across the codebase to start using things > > just because we can. > > > > It will take some thought sometimes to limit it to new features and we > > won't catch them all. > > But the flip side of that is we won't break everyone with a single change > > if we don't do it against many files at once that don't need it. > > > > That's my thoughts on it anyway... > > > > thanks, > > > > --larry > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Sandeep More <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> +1 as well. Also, we should be able to leverage some functionality from > >> JDK8 without the fear of breaking builds. > >> > >> Best, > >> Sandeep > >> > >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Philip Zampino < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> +1 > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Phil > >>> > >>> > >>> On 9/18/17, 10:38 AM, "larry mccay" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> All - > >>> > >>> We have been supporting Java 7 long past it's EOL which was in 2015 > >>> in > >>> order to be compatible with deployments that are conservative in > >>> upgrading > >>> to Java 8. > >>> > >>> I feel that at this point anyone that has not upgraded is not > >>> sufficiently > >>> concerned about the security implications and that this is no longer > >>> being > >>> conservative. :) > >>> > >>> In addition, a number of components within the hadoop ecosystem have > >>> already dropped Java 7 support. The popularity of these particular > >>> components more or less means that Java 8 will likely be in place > >>> anyway. > >>> > >>> This will also enable us to upgrade to the pac4j 2.x releases which > >>> have > >>> features that we would benefit from. > >>> > >>> If anyone has any concerns about this - please feel free to raise a > >>> flag. > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> > >>> --larry > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
