Bringing this up again because of a recently discovered issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2235
Flink 0.9.0 will still support Java 6. Just wanted to clarify again that we drop support for Java 6 for any further major releases. Do we have a consensus? On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > >
