: > : faster. And there are a ton of features that would make our lives as : > : developers easier (and that can improve the quality of Lucene 5 when : > : it is eventually released). : > : > Examples please?
: The ability to specify default methods on interfaces. So far, that's the only concrete example of seen of the stated motivation for this proposal. It doesn't strike me as a Game Changing langauge feature worthy of making the jump -- Not stacked up against the concerns expressed by several people about alienating existing users. I'm not opposed to moving to Java8, i'm just opposed to doing it w/o more compelling reasons. -1 ... unless/until there are more examples of: a) how moving to java 8 will make our lives easier; b) how java 8 will improve the quality of Lucene. -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
