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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:13:16 -0800
Subject: Re: Dropping Java 6 and 7 support
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> On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Niketan Pansare <npansar@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Thanks,
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> Niketan Pansare
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> E-mail: npansar At us.ibm.com
> http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=3Dus-npansar
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> Berthold Reinwald---03/06/2017 11:16:19 PM---+1 on removing java 6 and 7. R=
egards,
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> From: Berthold Reinwald/Almaden/IBM@IBMUS
> To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org
> Date: 03/06/2017 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Dropping Java 6 and 7 support
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> +1 on removing java 6 and 7.
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> Regards,
> Berthold Reinwald
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208
> e-mail: reinwald@us.ibm.com
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> From:   Matthias Boehm <mboehm7@googlemail.com>
> To:     dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org
> Date:   03/06/2017 10:58 PM
> Subject:        Dropping Java 6 and 7 support
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> Hi all,
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> I'd like to drop the support for Java 6 and 7 in our SystemML 1.0 release.=

> Our build still refers to a java compliance level 6, which has not been
> changed for more than 5 years now. Spark >=3D 1.5 anyway requires Java 7 a=
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> there has been some discussion on removing Java 7 as well because it
> reached end of life in April 2015. Moving to Java 8 would allow us to
> modernize the code base going forward and the 1.0 release would be the
> perfect time for this change.
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> Regards,
> Matthias
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