This issue has been discussed on various occasions and lately on LUCENE-3239 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3239)
The main reasons for this have been discussed on the issue but let me put them out here too: - Lack of testing on Jenkins with Java 5 - Java 5 end of lifetime is reached a long time ago so Java 5 is totally unmaintained which means for us that 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 we cannot actually "support" something that is no longer maintained: we do find JRE bugs (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SunJavaBugs) and its important that bugs actually get fixed: cannot do everything with hacks.\ - due to Java 5 we legitimate performance hits like 20% slower grouping speed. For reference please read through the issue mentioned above. A lot of the committers seem to be on the same page here to drop Java 5 support so I am calling out an official vote. all Lucene 3.x releases will remain with Java 5 support this vote is for trunk only. Here is my +1 Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
