+1 Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Simon Willnauer <simon.willna...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
