I don't see particular reason to maintaining JDK 7 compatibility, and am +1 to move to Java 8.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Andy Grove <andy.gr...@rms.com> wrote: > I’m trying to use the parquet-arrow library, which has just been updated > to use Arrow 0.8.0 but unfortunately I am still running into this issue: > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.arrow.vector.types. > pojo.ArrowType$Struct_ > > The class in the arrow jar is actually `Struct` not `Struct_`. > > This is due to Arrow using JDK 7 and Parquet using JDK 8. > > I have confirmed this on my forks and have submitted a PR to upgrade Arrow > to JDK 1.8 but the CI tests are running against both JDK 7 and 8 and > obviously the JDK 7 tests are failing. > > Is there any reason for maintaining JDK 7 compatibility? JDK 7 end of life > was 3 years ago. > > Thanks, > > Andy. > >
