Jira and patch avialable here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-2041.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM Harsha Chintalapani <st...@harsha.io> wrote: > sorry for the multiple emails. Something went wrong on my email provider > side. > > Instead of splitting into two separate threads as its hard keep track of > the discussion. We can continue this discussion on users list as it will > keep the storm users in the discussion as well. > Thanks, > Harsha > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:55 AM Satish Duggana <satish.dugg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> +1 on moving to Java 8 for 2.x release. >> >> As Jungtaek has already mentioned Oracle stopped supporting JDK/JRE 7 >> since April 2015. Java 8 brings better APIs and it will make our code look >> better and future user APIs can be designed lot better. >> >> Thanks, >> Satish. >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I was mistaken the address of user mailing list. Forwarding this to user@ >>> . >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>> From: Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com> >>> Date: 2016년 8월 12일 (금) 오후 6:38 >>> Subject: Re: [Discussion] Dropping Java 7 support on master >>> To: <d...@storm.apache.org>, <us...@storm.apache.org> >>> >>> >>> I'm not sure we would like to continue discussion on cross mailing list. >>> Please let me know if we want to split discussion into two separate >>> thread per mailing list. >>> >>> I'm +1 on dropping Java 7 support on master (2.0.0). >>> >>> While porting clojure code to java 7, we needed to convert functional >>> style functions to for loop which is too verbose and hide intention. It >>> also drops productivity. >>> We can do similar style by using Guava but it's more verbose, and Guava >>> is one of libraries I don't want to add as dependency. (Not only >>> storm-core, but also other modules.) >>> >>> I'm not sure how much users are forced to not use Java 8. (This is >>> common concern of upgrading JDK version.) >>> At now, Java 8 is over than 2 years ago, and Oracle drop public support >>> of JDK/JRE 7 1 year ago. Furthermore, Java 9 will be released to next year. >>> (actually planned to this year) >>> >>> I'm also the one who need to take a deep look at Java 8, but I think the >>> time has come. Let's go for that. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR) >>> >>> >>> 2016년 8월 12일 (금) 오후 6:10, Harsha Chintalapani <st...@harsha.io>님이 작성: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> Dropping java 7 support on master will allow us to use the new >>>> api in >>>> Java 8 and since the master is being used for java migration its good to >>>> make the decision now. Let me know your thoughts. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Harsha >>>> >>> >>
