[jira] [Commented] (BIGTOP-1137) provide a way to request a major version of JDK

["Sean Mackrory (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sean Mackrory commented on BIGTOP-1137:
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+1 - I quite like having the list segregated by category anyway!

> provide a way to request a major version of JDK
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIGTOP-1137
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1137
>             Project: Bigtop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: General
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0
>            Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
>            Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
>
>         Attachments: 0001-BIGTOP-1137.-provide-a-way-to-request-a-major-versio.patch
>
>
> It could be quite useful to have bigtop-utils java detection code discriminate between major version of JDK so that an environment variable could help prioritize between Java7 and Java6.
> I propose we introduce BIGTOP_JAVA_MAJOR environment variable that could then be set to either 7 or 6.



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