: Ok, I get your point and I'm not going to force it, but I don't agree : people still running 1.5 should be able to compile from sources. I : mean: 1.5 has been dead for a longer while now; the same argument : could be made for java 1.4 or whatever most recent version has been
that's an argument for changing our compatibility requirement to 1.6 -- i don't object to having that argument (not sure how i feel about the actual idea given the licensing hubub and lucene's nature as a *library* that lots of people embed in lots of apps - but i digress) but i don't see that as legitimate agrument in favor of having higher overhead for compiling then for running. for this discussion, it shouldn't matter what java version we are talking about, we could have the same argument about requiring 1.7 to compile but supporting binary releases that run on 1.6; or an argument about wether we should use a commercial tool that commiters have a license for to "build" java code from a source grammer -- the point is that as an open source project i think it's really important that *all* our users be allowed to compile from "source". -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
