Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Robert Muir
here is a great link for this topic: http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/supplementaries_iuc21.ppt so you see it wouldn't be that invasive, and of course you can still use char[], with some minor modifications to how you process text in certain places. its the parameters that take single char,

Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Robert Muir
in general most stuff will be ok (code just doesnt mess with the surrogate pairs) simple example: things like lowercase filter are not, and lowercasetokenizer, well, can't fix that since its super chartokenizer, works on char. i hope this doesnt sound bad, but in general the transition is simple

Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Michael McCandless
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Robert Muir wrote: >> >> 3.0 will then be a mechanical release: "simply" remove all deprecated >> APIs, fix all core, contrib, tests to not use those APIs, release, and >> immediately begin accepting 1.5 patches. >> > > personally, I wonder if anyone but me is inter

Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Robert Muir
> > 3.0 will then be a mechanical release: "simply" remove all deprecated > APIs, fix all core, contrib, tests to not use those APIs, release, and > immediately begin accepting 1.5 patches. > personally, I wonder if anyone but me is interested in correcting the issue that unicode character no long

Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Simon Willnauer
Thanks guys! On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > > On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Simon Willnauer wrote: > >> hey there, >> I see a lot of emails going on about 3.0, getting ready for Java 1.5 ( >> I guess enums, generics etc) and discussions about back-compat policy. >> I'm cu

Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Simon Willnauer wrote: hey there, I see a lot of emails going on about 3.0, getting ready for Java 1.5 ( I guess enums, generics etc) and discussions about back-compat policy. I'm curious if there is a kind of a roadmap or a document where I can get up-to-date with

RE: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Uwe Schindler
g. Eclipse. - Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > From: Michael McCandless [mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com] > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:33 PM > To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org; simon.willna...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: 3.0,

Re: 3.0, back-compat, Java 1.5 etc

2009-06-12 Thread Michael McCandless
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Simon Willnauer wrote: > I'm curious if there is a kind of a roadmap or a document where I can > get up-to-date with all those targets and especially what we want to > achieve in 3.0. I don't think we have such a doc... I think "the plan" at this point is quite s