+1 : Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:38:08 +0200 : From: Simon Willnauer <[email protected]> : Reply-To: [email protected], [email protected] : To: [email protected] : Subject: [VOTE] Drop Java 5 support for trunk (Lucene 4.0) : : 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] : :
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