I would rename the java file/class and write a big warning on it: for version < 3.0. Do not recreate (which cannot be done, because jflex file is missing). The current jflex file is recreated and is now the official support 1.5 version. The 1.4 version will never change!
----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de _____ From: Robert Muir [mailto:rcm...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 9:15 PM To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Why release 3.0? Steven, I think we can be almost sure of no latin-1 changes. what do you think about this jflex situation though? it seems like a mess, is there anything we can do before the jflex 1.5 stuff that is going on now (where we could actually link Version to the unicode version jflex uses explicitly?) should we generate a separate jflex for 3.0 based on 1.5 jre and use it depending on Version for now? On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Steven A Rowe <sar...@syr.edu> wrote: Hi Robert, I agree that the Unicode version supported by the JVM, as you say, really has nothing to do with Lucene. The disruption here is users' upgrading from Java 1.4 to 1.5+, not when they upgrade Lucene. I'd guess with few exceptions that most people have been using Lucene with 1.5+ for a couple of years now, though. But even the upgrade from Java 1.4 to 1.5+ will have (had) zero impact on most Lucene users, assuming that most use Latin-1 exclusively; although I haven't looked, I'd be surprised if Latin-1 characters changed much, if at all, from Unicode 3.0 to 4.0. It would be useful, I think, to include (a pointer to?) a description of the details of the Unicode 3.0->4.0 differences in the Lucene 3.0 release notes, since the minimum required Java version, and so also the supported Unicode version, changes then. Steve On 11/16/2009 at 2:15 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > the problem is that the properties have changed for various characters, > and new characters were added. > > it really has nothing to do with lucene, but the idea you can go from > jdk 1.4/lucene 2.9 to jdk 1.5/lucene3.0 without reindexing is not true. > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > > But an UTF-8 stream from Java 4 can still be read with Java 5, > what is the problem? Java 5 extended Unicode support, but an index > created with older versions can still be read. UTF-8 is standardized. > > > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Robert Muir [mailto:rcm...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:09 PM > > To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Why release 3.0? > > > > uwe, on topic please read my comment on LUCENE-1689, because > unicode version was bumped in jdk 1.5, i believe this index backwards > compatibility is only theoretical > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > 2.9 has *not* the same format as 3.0, an index created with 3.0 > cannot be read with 2.9. This is because compressed field support was > removed and therefore the version number of the stored fields file was > upgraded. But indexes from 2.9 can be read with 3.0 and support may get > removed in 4.0. 3.0 Indexes can be read until version 4.9. > > > > Uwe > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Jake Mannix [mailto:jake.man...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:15 PM > > > To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Why release 3.0? > > > > Don't users need to upgrade to 3.0 because 3.1 won't be > necessarily able to read your > 2.4 index file formats? I suppose if you've already upgraded to > 2.9, then all is well because > 2.9 is the same format as 3.0, but we can't assume all users > upgraded from 2.4 to 2.9. > > If you've done that already, then 3.0 might not be necessary, > but if you're on 2.4 right now, > you will be in for a bad surprise if you try to upgrade to 3.1. > > -jake > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Erick Erickson > <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One of my "specialties" is asking obvious questions just to see > if everyone's assumptions are aligned. So with the discussion about > branching 3.0 I have to ask "Is there going to be any 3.0 release > intended for *production*?". And if not, would we save a lot of > work by just not worrying about retrofitting fixes to a 3.0 branch > and carrying on with 3.1 as the first *supported* 3.x release? > > Since 3.0 is "upgrade-to-java5 and remove deprecations", I'm not > sure *as a user* I see a good reason to upgrade to 3.0. Getting a > "beta/snapshot" release to get a head start on cleaning up my code > does seem worthwhile, if I have the spare time. And having a base > 3.0 version that's not changing all over the place would be useful > for that. > > That said, I'm also not terribly comfortable with a "release" > that's out there and unsupported. > > Apologies if this has already been discussed, but I don't > remember it. Although my memory isn't what it used to be (but > some would claim it never was<G>)... > > Erick -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
