A JIRA exists for this https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/ARROW-2015
We were in agreement in principle on the migration - but when it was created there were a lot of focus on the 0.9 release. No reason not to begin now Dwight Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 23, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Li Jin <ice.xell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >> >>
