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DM Smith commented on LUCENE-3239:
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Same page.


> drop java 5 "support"
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>                 Key: LUCENE-3239
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3239
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>
> its been discussed here and there, but I think we need to drop java 5 
> "support", for these reasons:
> * its totally untested by any continual build process. Testing java5 only 
> when there is a release candidate ready is not enough. If we are to claim 
> "support" then we need a hudson actually running the tests with java 5.
> * its now unmaintained, so bugs have to either be hacked around, tests 
> disabled, warnings placed, but some things simply cannot be fixed... we 
> cannot actually "support" something that is no longer maintained: we do find 
> JRE bugs (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SunJavaBugs) and its important 
> that bugs actually get fixed: cannot do everything with hacks.
> * because of its limitations, we do things like allow 20% slower grouping 
> speed. I find it hard to believe we are sacrificing performance for this.
> So, in summary: because we don't test it at all, because its buggy and 
> unmaintained, and because we are sacrificing performance, I think we need to 
> cutover the build system for the next release to require java 6.

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