(Hmmm... I wonder what Heliosearch’s Java support policy is.) There was a Lucene wiki page for the Java 1.4 to 1.5 transition... is any of that thinking relevant to this 1.7 to 1.8 transition?
See: https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/Java_1.5_Migration IOW, how much of this issue is specific to Java 8, as opposed to ANY Java migration with trunk and the stable branch? And, to what extent does the issue relate to how imminent a 5.0 release is expected to be, and Java 7 EOL? EOL relates to office Oracle support, but that says nothing about the actual usage at major Lucene user sites. -- Jack Krupansky From: Ryan Ernst Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 11:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move trunk to Java 8 Nothing would force you to use java 8 features in anything you worked on. But they would be available. And if the branches are always "in sync", what is the point of having 2 branches? There would never be a reason for a major release. On Sep 14, 2014 9:33 AM, "Anshum Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote: I don't have a really strong opinion on 'Should we move to Java 8' but at the same time would not really be happy dealing with 2 continuously diverging branches. I wouldn't want to rewrite the same implementation twice over and get it to work. I am not sure about others but I think it will also make it tougher to attract contributors knowing they might have to deal with 2 divergent branches. At the same time, if there's a reason compelling enough that makes the lives of everyone involved better (read, easier), I'll be in for it. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Ryan Ernst <[email protected]> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Anshum Gupta http://www.anshumgupta.net
