As far as I know, there were no concrete discussions about this yet. I would not expect it to happen this year, but maybe/probably in the course of next year. We would have to have a release where we explicitly say that this will be the last major release with 1.7 support, so users running old version have some time to prepare for a 1.8 only release.
– Ufuk On 13 November 2016 at 21:52:17, Alberto Ramón (a.ramonporto...@gmail.com) wrote: > Thanks. > Sounds weird I imagine the Flink team have a road-map to migrate to Java 1.8 > > > On "Build From source > ": > > "Flink requires *at least Java 7* to build. We recommend using Java 8." > > > 2016-11-13 17:48 GMT+01:00 Andrey Melentyev : > > > Hi Alberto, > > > > it seems that this class is not compatible with Java 8 new type inference > > rules, more specifically the 1.8 compiler picks a different overloaded > > method than 1.7. > > > > In TupleSerializer.java:112 the call to TypeSerializer.copy method in Java > > 7 resolves to > > > > public abstract T copy(T from, T reuse); > > > > while with Java 8 following the new inference rules (which basically > > selects the most specific matching method) the compiler prefers > > > > public abstract void copy(DataInputView source, DataOutputView target) > > throws > IOException; > > > > and the compilation fails. It's the only place in the production code > > where this change in the compilation logic seems to cause compile-time > > errors. There are a few unit tests that fail to pick the correct overloaded > > method alternative as well. > > > > Since Java 7 is end of life, I think it makes sense to be able to build > > Flink with Java 8 source/target. If you create a Jira for the compilation > > issue, I can suggest a PR fixing the compile-time errors and the tests. > > > > Note that you can still use JDK8 to compile Flink without changing the > > java.version in pom.xml, in this scenario the compiler will not try to use > > 1.8 language features and the compilation will succeed. You can also run > > your Flink cluster using the Java 8 runtime. > > > > Andrey > > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Alberto Ramón > > > wrote: > > > >> bash> git Clone > >> POM> 1.8 > >> bash> java -version ==> java version "1.8.0_111" > >> > >> > >> *Failed to execute goal > >> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile > >> (default-compile) on project flink-core: Compilation failure[ERROR] . . . > >> /flink1.2 > >> _10_Nov/flink-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/api/java/typeutils/runtime/TupleSerializer.java:[112,63] > >> > >> incompatible types: void cannot be converted to java.lang.Object* > >> > >> is this Normal ? > >> (If I put 1.7, there isn't any problem) > >> > > > > >
