Seems like a bad precedent... if developers have to worry about coding around problems in specific JDK's, it could be a nightmare. What about the next user who uses some JDK than is less mainstream?
I think you're responding to the other branch of this thread!
What I was suggesting here is that Tim remove the regex code from the Lucene 1.4 codebase, since it requires Java 1.4, while everything else in Lucene requires only Java 1.2.
Separately, there's the issue of how Lucene should handle a bug in IBM's 1.3 JIT, but that's not what I was talking about here.
Doug
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:57 AM To: Lucene Developers List Subject: Re: New FieldSortedHitQueue uses Java 1.4 feature
Tim Jones wrote:
But, if this is the only code depending on java 1.4, it seems like it
would
be better to remove it for better version compatibility. Perhaps what
would
be best would be to have the code detect which version it's running under and act appropriately.
I vote for just removing it, and keeping Lucene 1.4 compatible with Java 1.2. I don't think it's worth trying to detect the version. You might add a comment, or even a commented-out 1.4-based implementation, to mark this as something to revisit when we eventually move Lucene to Java 1.4.
Doug
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