+1 for JDK 17 or maybe 18. In main (to eventually be Lucene 10.0, a couple years from now?) we should try to be free to use the latest JDK and Java language improvements.
Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:57 PM Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 12:32 PM Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Who would we be forcing to upgrade? It is the 'main' branch: unreleased. > > > > > > It will be released, eventually, right? In six months, a year maybe? > Then it's people like me who would be affected: we use Lucene internally > and this one dependency would push the entire stack to Java 17. I wouldn't > mind this at all if there was something super-attractive there to gain but > all the benefits of Java 17 to me at the moment lie at source-code level... > I just don't see much benefit at runtime. So I personally don't feel the > need to upgrade - this applies to Lucene, my own software and even my shell > default... > > six months to a year? I think it has been 2.5 years since the last > major release! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
