On 9/12/2014 9:41 AM, Ryan Ernst wrote: > It has been 6 months since Java 8 was released. It has proven to be > both stable (no issues like with the initial release of java 7) and > faster. And there are a ton of features that would make our lives as > developers easier (and that can improve the quality of Lucene 5 when > it is eventually released). > > We should stay ahead of the curve, and move trunk to Java 8.
I don't want to stand in the way, so this is not a negative vote. My only concern is causing a large amount of divergence between trunk and the stable branch, which makes it difficult to backport. I'm completely unfamiliar with what Java 8 brings to the table. I'll also confess that I'm still fairly clueless about what Java 7 gives us that's not in Java 6 ... although I think I finally do understand what "try-with-resources" actually means. If switching to Java 8 is the first step on the road towards a 5.0 release, then I'm all in favor ... although we really need to figure out how we'll achieve a running Solr, now that we don't make a .war. Thanks, Shawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
