On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Chris Male wrote: > Hi, > > It really should say: Added Geospatial Support, as it was non-existent in > Solr before. > > Most of the work for adding in spatial in Solr consisted of improving things > in Solr to make it easy to leverage the one spatial feature we really added: > distance based functions and parsing support. Everything else was generally > useful things: sorting by function, poly fields, etc. I started on tier > support, but dropped it when I realized it was broken beyond repair. The > Solr stuff uses, IMO, the stuff in Lucene that works and ignores the rest. I > seem to recall Chris had said that once I got done w/ the Solr stuff he would > do the modules work, but it hasn't happened yet. > > I'd say in 3.2, since it sounds like Chris did at least deprecate > contrib/spatial, that we work to get all of this resolved: spatial -> > modules, function queries -> modules. Naturally we should do it on trunk, > too. > > Just note that I didn't not do it out of laziness. Actually pushing stuff > into the module isn't easy since there isn't much that can be saved from > contrib, and Solr's spatial code are predominately bound to function queries, > which themselves are very coupled to Solr and that there wasn't anything like > a consensus that they should be moved.
Agreed, it's not a small task. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
