Solr uses Lucene and Lucene requires java 7 since version 4.8. 2015-01-30 13:43 GMT-02:00 Lewis John Mcgibbney <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Konstantin, > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:22 AM, <dev-digest-h...@tika.apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Are there Apache projects that depend on Tika which want to be compatible > > with 1.6? > > > This is an extremely difficult question to even consider. I value my sleep > so I am not going to try and do this research :) > > > > At least we should ask Solr folks about that, I think. > > > > > I don't! Why would we ask Solr? They consume Tika the same as anyone else. > Many projects (Solr 4.X included IIRC) e.g. Cassandra 2.X just jumped to > Java 1.7 meing that users need to upgrade their systems. > 1.6 is an old version of Java. There was talk about early release Java 9 > JDK's for build slaves not long ago in Oracles offices in Dublin. > Lewis >
