I agree with most of the points Otis makes. As a developer I would prefer to develop in Java5.
As I do all my Solr development in Java5, it would be nice to be able to move some common stuff to Lucene more easily. Now I have to plan ahead of time if I think it has a decent probability of being wanted by the Lucene community, and avoid any Java5 features. A couple of points: - "syntactic sugar" is a rather broad categorization, including some very useful things. It is not synonymous with "irrelevant" or "should not be seriously considered", although it has that connotation. I'd recommend avoiding that phrase. - I disagree with many of the arguments 1.4 proponents are making about the Java5 language/library improvements themselves. The real compelling argument is that moving to Java5 now will inconvenience a fair number of people. I'd personally be more comfortable moving to Java5 if at least GCJ had support (which it looks like it's getting!) -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]