Andrew thanks for writing the proposal. In the proposal you mention: "Dropping support for a JDK in a minor release is incompatible, so this would require a change to our compatibility guidelines."
Why is dropping a JDK incompatible? sanjay On Jun 24, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Forking this thread as requested by Vinod. To help anyone who's catching up > with this thread, I've written up a wiki page containing what I think are > the proposals under discussion. I did my very best to make this as > fact-based and disinterested as possible; I really appreciate the > constructive discussion we've had so far. If you believe you have a > proposal pending, please feel free to edit the wiki. > > https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MovingToJdk7and8 > > I think based on our current compatibility guidelines, Proposal A is the > most attractive. We're pretty hamstrung by the requirement to keep the > classpath the same, which would be solved by either OSGI or shading our > deps (but that's a different discussion). > > Thanks, > Andrew -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
