Agree, I would also like to drop Java 6 after 0.9. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For now, the right way to use older Maven version BUT I would > recommend, similar to Spargel, make 0.9 be last release for Java6. > > It is already end of life and more and more developers start flocking > to Java7 and Java8. > > > - Henry > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > looking at the last builds on Travis, you'll notice that our builds are > in > > a pretty bad state: https://travis-ci.org/apache/flink/builds. > > It seems that the last 15 builds on master all failed. > > > > These are the errors I saw + their status: > > - Deadlock during cache up/download: I asked travis and they suggested a > > workaround that I'm currently testing (MALLOC_ARENA=2, in master) > > - issues opening zip files: The problem there is that some jars in the > > cache seem to be corrupt. I asked ASF Infra to delete all caches, they > did > > it already, so the problem should be resolved. > > - Maven failing on the java6 builds. The issue is that Travis updated > their > > build environment (April update [1]), which included a version upgrade of > > Maven from 3.2.5 to 3.3.1. As per Maven 3.3.1, they are not supporting > Java > > 6 anymore [2]. > > It seems that travis is rolling back the April environment updates [3] so > > the issue will probably disappear for a few days until they fixed their > > environment update. > > We can resolve the issue by two ways a) drop Java6 support, b) manually > > install maven on travis (its a matter of 1-2hrs). > > - The third build on travis (hadoop200-alpha) is failing due to some > Flink > > tests: https://travis-ci.org/apache/flink/jobs/60335907 > > It would be good if somebody who worked on this recently could take a > > closer look. > > > > > > Please let me know how you want to fix the Java6/Maven issue! > > a) Drop Java 6 support for Flink > > b) Use an older Maven version for now. > > > > I'm in favor of option b) because the community recently decided to keep > > Java6 support. (Fun fact: Java 7 reached its end of support lifecycle [4] > > in April 2015) > > > > > > Robert > > > > [1] http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/build-environment-updates/2015-04-09/ > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5780 > > [3] https://twitter.com/traviscistatus/status/592902357144498176 > > [4] > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_SE_7_.28July_28.2C_2011.29 >
