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+1

Thanks,

Niketan Pansare
IBM Almaden Research Center
E-mail: npansar At us.ibm.com
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-npansar



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



+1 on removing java 6 and 7.

Regards,
Berthold Reinwald
IBM Almaden Research Center
office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208
e-mail: reinwald@us.ibm.com



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



Hi all,

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 >= 1.5 anyway requires Java 7 and
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.

Regards,
Matthias