A little late to the game, but +1 on Java 8 on trunk. This bikeshed has gone on for countless years (go google moving to Java 5 like 8 years ago for Lucene) and you will never make everyone happy. People will upgrade when the new features they want in the latest release outweigh the mythical pain of upgrading a JDK.
On Sep 15, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[email protected]> wrote: > +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. -------------------------------------------- Grant Ingersoll | @gsingers http://www.lucidworks.com
