Hi Adrien, I don't suggest we do so in 8.7, unless there's CVE that need immediate addressing. +1 to removing in branch_8x. Thanks, Ishan
On Fri, 30 Oct, 2020, 11:22 pm Adrien Grand, <[email protected]> wrote: > Ishan, why would this be a blocker for 8.7? Would it be good enough to > remove in branch_8x? > > Le ven. 30 oct. 2020 à 18:33, Ishan Chattopadhyaya < > [email protected]> a écrit : > >> +1 to removing it (in 8.7 with a respin, if needed). If we can't support >> it, there's no need to keep it. If someone wants, they can assume ownership >> of a third party package. +1 to removing all non essential code and >> trimming down the Solr distribution. There's no good reason for Solr, which >> is in effect just a distributed layer on top of Lucene, to be a 200MB >> download. >> >> On Fri, 30 Oct, 2020, 9:50 pm Uwe Schindler, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I fully agree with Erick, >>> >>> Please don't start and try to get 8.x on Java 11. Release Lucene/Solr 9! >>> >>> Uwe >>> >>> ----- >>> Uwe Schindler >>> Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen >>> https://www.thetaphi.de >>> eMail: [email protected] >>> >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: Erick Erickson <[email protected]> >>> > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 3:39 PM >>> > To: [email protected] >>> > Subject: Re: Solr 8.x and contribs requiring Java 11 >>> > >>> > I’m always reluctant to change something like this for a point release. >>> > >>> > I’ve been supposing that we’d release Solr 9 for a while, I always >>> thought >>> > that moving to Java 11 would be a driver for the 9.0 release but I >>> wasn’t >>> > correct in that. >>> > >>> > That expectation has been complicated by the whole reference impl >>> thing. >>> > >>> > What I’d suggest is that we push forward with a 9.0 release and >>> consider >>> > it something of a placeholder while the reference impl either becomes >>> > our main line or doesn’t. Then your problem disappears ;). >>> Unfortunately, >>> > a new major release always takes some time. >>> > >>> > FWIW, >>> > Erick >>> > >>> > > On Oct 30, 2020, at 10:30 AM, Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> > > >>> > > I've run into this in SOLR-14974. The dependency is on Java 11. >>> > > Everything works if you build and run under Java 11 but of course it >>> > > won't fly on Java 8 (won't even compile). >>> > > >>> > > I wonder what are your thoughts on keeping Java 8 as the minimum for >>> > > Solr 8x. Is 8.x going to be on Java 8 forever? Or is minimum of Java >>> > > 11 a possibility, only nobody got to it yet? >>> > > >>> > > Dawid >>> > > >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > > 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] >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>>
