On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> [.] Move Lucene/Solr trunk to Java 8 and allow closures in source code. This >> would make some APIs much nicer. Our infrastructure mostly supports this, >> only ECJ Javadoc linting is not yet possible, but forbidden-apis supports >> Java 8 with all its crazy new stuff. > > I haven't thought too much about consequences, but if we do that, to > me it means that we can't release Lucene/Solr 5 soon since we can't > expect all users to be on Java 8 soon after its release. So I would > rather like that we wait a bit before doing that in order to still > have the opportunity to release Lucene/Solr 5 if we get some nice > backward-incompatible changes in the next months? > True, but nobody is holding a gun to those users heads to force them to upgrade to 5 either. They could just stay on 4.x. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
