On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > [.] Move Lucene/Solr 4.8 (means branch_4x) to Java 7 and backport all Java > 7-related issues (FileChannel improvements, diamond operator,...).
+1 > [.] 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. -1 I think it is too early. Unfortunately organizations don't move as fast as us in these things. Let us have this vote when we actually want to release 5.0. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org