+1 -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com
On 27. juni 2011, at 19.38, Simon Willnauer wrote: > This issue has been discussed on various occasions and lately on > LUCENE-3239 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3239) > > The main reasons for this have been discussed on the issue but let me > put them out here too: > > - Lack of testing on Jenkins with Java 5 > - Java 5 end of lifetime is reached a long time ago so Java 5 is > totally unmaintained which means for us that bugs have to either be > hacked around, tests disabled, warnings placed, but some things simply > cannot be fixed... we cannot actually "support" something that is no > longer maintained: we do find JRE bugs > (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SunJavaBugs) and its important > that bugs actually get fixed: cannot do everything with hacks.\ > - due to Java 5 we legitimate performance hits like 20% slower grouping speed. > > For reference please read through the issue mentioned above. > > A lot of the committers seem to be on the same page here to drop Java > 5 support so I am calling out an official vote. > > all Lucene 3.x releases will remain with Java 5 support this vote is > for trunk only. > > > Here is my +1 > > Simon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
