On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:09 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > As another one that I ran into, until gcj gets 1.5 going, Linux on > SPARC and Alpha platforms is stuck at the 1.4 level - there are no 1.5 > jdk/jre available. I think some other platforms may be stuck at a > similar point - possibly IRIX amongst them.
Is that really something Lucene should worry about, how some minority architectures are not up to date with the JMV? I've been stuck with Linux PPC for quite some years now. Recently the IBM 1.5 was released. The 1.4 from IBM had serious problems with the JIT and could not be run on most modern PPC platforms. Prior to that there was GCJ, not fully ported at that time. When most my friends was switching to 1.5 I was still on Blackdown 1.3, and had to stay there. My assessment was that if I really needed 1.4, then I would have to switch architecture that supports it or wait. I never felt that the world should hold their projects back so I could run them on my machine. I had to run outdate stuff. It was a major pain. I was broke. Got used. After all, Lucene comes with version numbers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
