Hi all,
CLucene has grown quite nicely the last few years, but yet we were unable to keep up with the high pace of Java Lucene's. Our goal has always been to have Lucene on steroids, and have it more maintainable and up to speed with Java Lucene. As Ben mentioned here last week, now there's Lucene++ written by Alan Wright which is easier to maintain, and therefore it allows to keep up with Java Lucene more easily - not to mention making bindings and porting of contribs more easily. However, Lucene++ is currently significantly heavier than CLucene, and is having several downsides we currently don't have (or don't want to have) in CLucene. Ben and I have decided to try and modify Lucene++ so it is lighter and works faster, and when we are done we plan on making the result the main branch of CLucene. This should allow us to concentrate on performance tuning, and on making more tools accessible to the community. Being more recent and with bindings to other languages should make the project more known and the community bigger. However, that means serious API change, and having a larger and heavier library, as mentioned in a previous thread. It also means we will not be able to support the 2_3_2 branch for long. The main downside here is if someone finds the current implementation perfect and is afraid of having a heavier library. We'd appreciate your opinions on the matter, or any help pulling this off. Itamar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ CLucene-developers mailing list CLucene-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clucene-developers
