On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
On 6/20/06, DM Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In any case, there is still GCJ too. If GCJ supported 1.5, and we
> could make a 1.4 library with Retrotranslator, that should cover
most
> users, right?
If I am not mistaken: future support for 1.5 in gcj is ambiguous
and/or will
be incomplete.
You don't use GCJ right?
Correct. We couldn't because of our use of Swing. It appears that it
is sufficiently far along that it is worth trying again. The problem
we have is trying to explain to users how to install java in order to
get our application to work. If we could redistribute java as a
seamless part of our application we would.
We are planning to migrate from Swing to Eclipse's RCP/JFace/SWT and
then we can and would use GCJ. If Lucene goes to Java 5, we will need
to re-examine those plans.
GCJ is currently incomplete, and needs patches to get it to work with
lucene (and lucene committers have accepted patches to ease this
porting in the past). GCJ support in Lucene isn't as much for the
end-user IMO, but for developers who maintain other Lucene ports.
Time will tell how good the Java5 support is for GCJ. Hopefully less
time rather than more ;-)
-Yonik
http://incubator.apache.org/solr Solr, the open-source Lucene
search server
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