On 11/16/11 10:50 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
Consider also that some bugs have been resolved in minor versions of Java 6
> so this wouldn't secure things 100% from previous bugs, but I think that
> doing a minor version upgrade (usually to at least 1.6.0_18) is trivial
> while changing major versions could be an issue with a big project.
> By the way, it seems Lucene 3.x is going to drop Java 5 support thus this
> would block any further update to Lucas/Solrcas (Lucene/Solr 3.4 still has
> Java 5 but 3.5/3.6+ will probably migrate to Java 6).
Again, I don't know why we couldn't continue to upgrade Lucas, even if was Java
5 compatible. Wouldn't it run just fine under Java 6?
The point is when you want to write an addon component which depends
on a Java 6 only library it will not work with Java 5.
Therefore you need to require at least Java 6 for this addon component.
This issue might get worse over time when more and more projects decide
to update to Java 6.
Jörn
