[jira] [Comment Edited] (SPARK-5475) Java 8 tests are like maintenance overhead.

["Prashant Sharma (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Prashant Sharma edited comment on SPARK-5475 at 2/3/15 6:32 AM:
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Hi Sean, I can not get them to run. 

My steps are: 
{noformat}
build/sbt -Pjava8-tests
project java8-tests
test

Or just run

build/sbt -Pjava8-tests java8-tests/test:test
{noformat}

P.S I can not run the build from maven somehow, I can get compiler to crash consistently at graphx. 



was (Author: prashant_):
Hi Sean, I can not get them to run. 

My steps are: 
`build/sbt -Pjava8-tests`
`project java8-tests`
`test`

I can not run the build from maven somehow, I can get compiler to crash consistently at graphx. 


> Java 8 tests are like maintenance overhead. 
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-5475
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5475
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Prashant Sharma
>
> Having tests that validate the same code compatible with java 8 and java 7 is like asserting that java 8 is backward compatible with java 7 and still supports java 8 features(lambda expressions to be precise). This was once necessary as asm was not compatible with java 8 and so on. 
> Running java8-tests on the current code base results in more than 100 compilation errors, it felt as if they are never run. This is based on the fact that compilation errors have existed for a pretty long period. So IMHO, we should really remove them, if we don't plan to maintain.
> Thoughts?



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