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+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * Use by certain classes to match version compatibility
+ * across releases of Lucene.
+ *
+ * <p><b>WARNING</b>: When changing the version parameter
+ * that you supply to components in Lucene, do not simply
+ * change the version at search-time, but instead also adjust
+ * your indexing code to match, and re-index.
+ */
+// remove me when java 5 is no longer supported
+// this is a workaround for a JDK bug that wrongly emits a warning.
+@SuppressWarnings("dep-ann")
+public enum Version {
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 2.0 release.
+ * @deprecated (3.1) Use latest
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_20,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 2.1 release.
+ * @deprecated (3.1) Use latest
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_21,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 2.2 release.
+ * @deprecated (3.1) Use latest
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_22,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 2.3 release.
+ * @deprecated (3.1) Use latest
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_23,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 2.4 release.
+ * @deprecated (3.1) Use latest
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_24,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 2.9 release.
+ * @deprecated (3.1) Use latest
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_29,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 3.0 release. */
+ LUCENE_30,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 3.1 release. */
+ LUCENE_31,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 3.2 release. */
+ LUCENE_32,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 3.3 release. */
+ LUCENE_33,
+
+ /** Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 3.4 release. */
+ LUCENE_34,
+
+ /**
+ * Match settings and bugs in Lucene's 3.5 release.
+ * <p>
+ * Use this to get the latest & greatest settings, bug
+ * fixes, etc, for Lucene.
+ */
+ LUCENE_35,
+
+ /* Add new constants for later versions **here** to respect order! */
+
+ /**
+ * <p><b>WARNING</b>: if you use this setting, and then
+ * upgrade to a newer release of Lucene, sizable changes
+ * may happen. If backwards compatibility is important
+ * then you should instead explicitly specify an actual
+ * version.
+ * <p>
+ * If you use this constant then you may need to
+ * <b>re-index all of your documents</b> when upgrading
+ * Lucene, as the way text is indexed may have changed.
+ * Additionally, you may need to <b>re-test your entire
+ * application</b> to ensure it behaves as expected, as
+ * some defaults may have changed and may break functionality
+ * in your application.
+ * @deprecated Use an actual version instead.
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ LUCENE_CURRENT;
+
+ public boolean onOrAfter(Version other) {
+ return compareTo(other) >= 0;
+ }
+}
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