On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
Frankly, I am amazed at the pace of GCJ, but it is hard to imagine
that
with so much free code out there doing what they need, that it could
take much longer to get 1.5 support.
Just guessing, but could it be that the features in 1.5 and 1.6 are
just not compelling enough to motivate many contributors to add them
to gcj? Or maybe the plethora of various FOSS Java VMs is confusing
the issue.
Well, obviously Sun felt there reasons to release them... But
really, there are enough features to motivate me and, I believe, a
number of other Lucene contributors, which is more compelling
If they don't have Java 1.5 support in another 6-12 months (with
so many
shortcuts available), why let such a laggard in the java community
hold
back Lucene?
Presumably because what's being done with gcj and Lucene is also an
important use of Lucene that the Lucene developers don't wish to
gratuitously cripple.
And if they are going to support Java 1.5 within the next
6-18 months, what is so bad about a short gap time where you are
stuck
with Lucene 2.9? No one seems so upset at being stuck with Java
1.4 for
years -- will there really be an uproar if some legacy systems
need to
stay with 2.9 for 6 months? It would be sad to expect that Java
1.5 will
not be coming to GCJ soon.
And it would seem to be poor engineering, given the past history of
gcj development, to predict a time-frame for the emergence of full 1.5
support.
Right, I do feel the GCJ pain and I wish we could keep everyone
happy, but I just think it is time to move upwards and onwards.
-Grant
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