Andi Vajda wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Tim Smith wrote: > >> Here's my vote on the topic of 2.9 vs 3.0 >> >> Next release should be 2.9 >> This release provides TONs of new APIs for things like Hit Collection, >> Scoring, Sorting, etc >> If all the deprecated stuff were removed for the "next" release, this >> would >> be impossible for any application developer to consume (unless they are >> using very light high level use of lucene APIs) >> >> I would then vote for a very fast turnaround on 3.0 >> deprecations removed, generics added, performance improvements >> possible with >> java 1.5, but no major new features >> I would argue that small features should be allowed in (provided they >> would >> not cause any postponement to 3.0 going out soon) >> >> This allows me (as a application developer) to do the following: >> upgrade to 2.9 (port my code to use all the new APIs) >> hopefully, once i have fully ported everything to 2.9, 3.0 will now >> be ready >> (or will be soon) >> then, i can drop in 3.0 (very minor porting required here) and all the >> deprecated APIs with their slowing "wrapper" code for back-compat >> will now >> be gone, along with improvements in using StringBuilder instead of >> StringBuffer, generics, and other performance improvements. >> >> I would hope to never release any of my code running 2.9 and instead >> release >> with 3.0, however as a app developer, i need 2.9 as a bridge for porting > > +1 > > I'd add that 3.0 should also contain 2.9 bug fixes over new features. > Consider 3.0 a 2.9.1 bug fix release with deprecations removed and > Java 1.5 goodness :) > > Andi.. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > I'm not counting on any bugs in time for the 3.0 release. If you smell them, point me to them.
Color me an optimist :) -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
