There's always a tradeoff we need to make. I'm in favor of upgrading to Java 8 to bring in all new Java features.The common way I've seen (and I agree) other software upgrading major things like this is 1) upgrade for next big release without backward compatibility and notify everyone 2) maintain and patch current, old-tech compatible version at a reasonably limited scope. Building backward compatibility is too much for an open sourced projectOn Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Robert Metzger <[hidden email]> wrote:I've put it also on our Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/ApacheFlink/status/842015062667755521
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Martin Neumann <[hidden email]>
wrote:
> I think this easier done in a straw poll than in an email conversation.
> I created one at: http://www.strawpoll.me/12535073
> (Note that you have multiple choices.)
>
>
> Though I prefer Java 8 most of the time I have to work on Java 7. A lot of
> the infrastructure I work on still runs Java 7, one of the companies I
> build a prototype for a while back just updated to Java 7 2 years ago. I
> doubt we can ditch Java 7 support any time soon if we want to make it easy
> for companies to use Flink.
>
> cheers Martin
>
> //PS sorry if this gets sent twice, we just migrated to a new mail system
> and a lot of things are broken
>
> ________________________________
> From: Stephan Ewen <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:30:24 PM
> To: [hidden email]; [hidden email]
> Subject: [POLL] Who still uses Java 7 with Flink ?
>
> Hi all!
>
> I would like to get a feeling how much Java 7 is still being used among
> Flink users.
>
> At some point, it would be great to drop Java 7 support and make use of
> Java 8's new features, but first we would need to get a feeling how much
> Java 7 is still used.
>
> Would be happy if users on Java 7 respond here, or even users that have
> some insights into how widespread they think Java 7 still is.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephan
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