Hi all, Java 8 will get released (hopefully, but I trust the release plan!) on March 18, 2014. Because of this, lots of developers will move to Java 8, too. This makes maintaining 3 versions for developing Lucene 4.x not easy anymore (unless you have cool JAVA_HOME "cmd" launcher scripts using StExBar available for your Windows Explorer - or similar stuff in Linux/Mäc).
We already discussed in another thread about moving to release trunk as 5.0, but people disagreed and preferred to release 4.8 with a minimum of Java 7. This is perfectly fine, as nobody should run Lucene or Solr on an unsupported platform anymore. If they upgrade to 4.8, they should also upgrade their infrastructure - this is a no-brainer. In Lucene trunk we switch to Java 8 as soon as it is released (in 10 days). Now the good things: We don't need to support JRockit anymore, no need to support IBM J9 in trunk (unless they release a new version based on Java 8). So the vote here is about: [.] Move Lucene/Solr 4.8 (means branch_4x) to Java 7 and backport all Java 7-related issues (FileChannel improvements, diamond operator,...). [.] Move Lucene/Solr trunk to Java 8 and allow closures in source code. This would make some APIs much nicer. Our infrastructure mostly supports this, only ECJ Javadoc linting is not yet possible, but forbidden-apis supports Java 8 with all its crazy new stuff. You can vote separately for both items! Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
