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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:30:18 +0000
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Subject: Re: Proposal: require Java7 for Cassandra 2.0
From: Eric Evans <eevans@acunu.com>
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Anton Prakash
<anton.prakash@cloudtalk.com> wrote:
> unsubscribe
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Ajith Kannan <kannana@mail.montclair.edu>wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On 2/6/2013 9:13 PM, Jake Luciani wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Gary Dusbabek<gdusbabek@gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  +1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Ellis<jbellis@gmail.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Java 6 EOL is this month.  Java 7 will be two years old when C* 2.0
>>>>> comes out (July).  Anecdotally, a bunch of people are running C* on
>>>>> Java7 with no issues, except for the Snappy-on-OS-X problem (which
>>>>> will be moot if LZ4 becomes our default, as looks likely).
>>>>>
>>>>> Upgrading to Java7 lets us take advantage of new (two year old)
>>>>> features as well as simplifying interoperability with other
>>>>> dependencies, e.g., Jetty's BlockingArrayQueue requires java7.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jonathan Ellis
>>>>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>>>>> co-founder, http://www.datastax.com
>>>>> @spyced
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>


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