Robert Engels wrote:
I just don't understand why a "few' voices can hold back progress. These "few" can just run older versions of Lucene. 1.5 has been released for almost 4 years on most major platforms. Not using 1.5 for such a high profile project is absurd.
The fact that this has generated so much discussion as ample indication that it is not an open-and-shut, clearcut issue. There are reasonable people, valued members of the Lucene community, who would much prefer that Lucene's core development not require Java 1.5. We should respect these folks, even if they are a minority (and even that is not yet clear). This is a significant move and we should undertake it thoughtfully. We should avoid alienating our colleagues.
Lucene, a library with no dependencies beyond the JVM, is at the end of most dependency chains. Thus it is reasonable for it to move slowly and predictably, since many things depend on it. In the past, have learned the hard way that introducing incompatible changes, while seeming expedient at the time, usually wastes more time long-term, in order to clear up the confusion. So let's all be patient as we work this out.
There seems to be a consensus that 1.5 features are acceptable in contrib modules. Contrib modules are also a good starting place for new Lucene features, which might be subsequently moved to the core. So let's certainly get started there and see how it goes.
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