-1 on the move to 1.4 just now. I have a major application that has yet to be tested for 1.4 compliance (lots of pre1.4 libraries). More importantly, I use a hosting service that doesn't offer 1.4 just yet.
Regards, Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Cutting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:07 PM Subject: Re: New FieldSortedHitQueue uses Java 1.4 feature > Eric Isakson wrote: > > I hadn't heard any discussion about bumping up to Java 1.4 in the Lucene 1.4 release. Was this just overlooked or are we planning to drop support for pre 1.4 JVMs? > > There hasn't been any discussion yet, so, by default, we should still > try to make things work in Java 1.2. > > That said, maybe we should have such a discussion. Folks have been > encountering strange bugs using Lucene in Java 1.3 recently. There are > some features of Java 1.4 which could be useful, e.g., LinkedHashMap, > for easy implementation of LRU caches, regex support, logging, xml > parsers, etc. So there are good reasons to move to 1.4. > > Are there reasons not to move to 1.4? 1.4 has been out for two years > now, and is pretty stable, but perhaps there are reasons some folks are > still unable to use it. If so, please speak up. > > Doug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
