I'm firmly in favor of this.

It would also fix https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7009 and
avoid any more of the long-standing 64K file limit thing that's still
a problem for PySpark.

As a point of reference, CDH5 has never supported Java 6, and it was
released over a year ago.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote:
> This has been discussed a few times in the past, but now Oracle has ended
> support for Java 6 for over a year, I wonder if we should just drop Java 6
> support.
>
> There is one outstanding issue Tom has brought to my attention: PySpark on
> YARN doesn't work well with Java 7/8, but we have an outstanding pull
> request to fix that.
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6869
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1920

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