Thanks James, Fokko! Sounds like we are generally in agreement to move forward.
I'll leave the discussion open for now in case others have questions/comments to add. On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 4:25 PM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey Dane, > > Thanks for bringing this up again. > > In the dev-list thread you referred to I hesitated to drop Java <17, but it > is time. We see several projects that are moving past Java 8, and in > the process are also dropping Java 11 since it is not supported anymore > <https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html>. I > echo'd this on the Iceberg dev list, and also suggested this with Avro 1.12 > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/6vbd3w5qk7mpb5lyrfyf2s0z1cymjt5w>. > > Kind regards, > Fokko > > > > Op do 25 apr 2024 om 22:02 schreef Dane Pitkin > <d...@voltrondata.com.invalid > >: > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to revisit the discussion of dropping Java 8 (and maybe 11) > > from Arrow's Java implementation. See GH issue[1] below. This was also > > discussed in the last Arrow community sync meeting on 2024-04-24. > > > > For context, this was discussed[2] last year on this mailing list. We > > decided to revisit the discussion around the June 2024 release (Arrow > v17). > > The timing coincides with the initial release of Apache Spark 4.0.0, > which > > drops both Java 8 and 11 support. > > > > For background, we chose not to drop Java 8 support last year because > Arrow > > is seen as a low level library that should support as many environments > as > > possible. Nowadays, we see more enthusiasm for dropping Java 8 (and 11) > as > > exemplified by Apache Spark as well as Apache Iceberg[3]. > > > > Is it time to consider dropping Java 8? Should we drop Java 11 and skip > > straight to Java 17 as our minimum version? What implications do we need > to > > be aware of? > > > > Thanks, > > Dane > > > > [1]https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/38051 > > [2]https://lists.apache.org/thread/s07jx58yw4mkl54t3bkggnyg0sftcrr8 > > [3]https://lists.apache.org/thread/ntrk2thvsg9tdccwd4flsdz9gg743368 > > >
