Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Dawid Weiss
So close! https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/updated_java_6_eol_date?msgid=3-6077692575 Dawid - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Which just begs the question (sorry if it has been discussed before) of whether we should officially only support Solr/Lucene 4.0 under Java 1.7. Erick On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Dawid Weiss dawid.we...@gmail.com wrote: So close!

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Which just begs the question (sorry if it has been discussed before) of whether we should officially only support Solr/Lucene 4.0 under Java 1.7. Erick On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Dawid Weiss dawid.we...@gmail.com wrote: So close!

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Uwe Schindler
I see no problem in supporting Java 7. All tests run with Java 7, both 3.x and trunk. I have a production instance of Lucene running with Java 7. The only requirement is u1. Lucene 3.5 was the first version not only compiling against Java 7 worked, but also running all tests. The code already

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.com wrote: Which just begs the question (sorry if it has been discussed before) of whether we should officially only support Solr/Lucene 4.0 under Java 1.7. Lucene's purpose is to be a dependency for other projects, and that

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Uwe Schindler
Sorry, I misunderstood the original question... -1 to *only* support Java 7 in both Lucene and Solr. This is way to early. Java 7 is not yet released to the public end user, you can only get it as developer resource, not on official end-user java download triggered e.g. from the browser on

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Erick Erickson
OK, that settles that G, 1.6 going forward. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Uwe Schindler u...@thetaphi.de wrote: Sorry, I misunderstood the original question... -1 to *only* support Java 7 in both Lucene and Solr. This is way to early. Java 7 is not yet released to the public end user,

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread Martijn v Groningen
Maybe some time after the 4.x branch is created, the trunk can move to Java 7? 3.x branch supports Java 5, 4.x and current trunk support Java 6. Seems natural to me that the future 5.x and future trunk would support Java 7... Martijn On 16 March 2012 15:50, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.com

Re: Java 1.6 EOL

2012-03-16 Thread DM Smith
On 03/16/2012 05:04 AM, Dawid Weiss wrote: So close! https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/updated_java_6_eol_date?msgid=3-6077692575 Dawid It's only close as a date. It is rather far away in practice. It is developer only at this point. Also, they are working on a Mac version, but I