On 28 Apr 2015, at 13:49, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Robert, > > Thanks for investigating the Travis build issues. I'm very much in favor > for dropping Java 6. It's deprecated. All major Linux distributions are > shipping at least Java 7. It's a rare use case that requires a lot of > effort for us to maintain backwards compatibility. > > I don't recall the discussion but if we really decided to keep Java 6, then > I guess we have to install a custom Maven version on Travis. There was a discussion ~6 months ago: http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Bump-the-minimum-Java-requirement-to-Java-7-for-Flink-td2243.html#a2249 Result was to not drop support for it. I'm not sure if anything has changed (with regards to the arguments made). You can start a new discussion if you think we should consider dropping support. In any case, let's not mix it up with the discussion here. – Ufuk
