+1 If we asked our users we would still be using Java 5. Let's move trunk to Java 8. We'd need to backport stuff to Java 7 based branches for a while because users... but that's okay.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Ryan Ernst <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been 6 months since Java 8 was released. It has proven to be > both stable (no issues like with the initial release of java 7) and > 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). > > We should stay ahead of the curve, and move trunk to Java 8. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
