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Steven Rowe commented on LUCENE-2981:
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bq. FYI, LEGAL-82 includes mention of Lucene's dependency on a Berkeley DB lib;
on that issue, Sam Ruby says, in answer to the question of the legitimacy of
dependency on BDB (along with other "Category X" works): "the short answer is
no".
Hmm, as recorded in LUCENE-1845, Simon Willnauer asked on [email protected]
specifically about Lucene's use of a BDB dependency, and [Niclas Hedhman's
response|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200908.mbox/%[email protected]%3E]
was actually in support of including the BDB jar as an optional dependency,
"provided it is not shipped with the release and that the user is provided with
the information that the BDB needs to be downloaded separately and advised to
review their license."
So: the DB contribs' BDB dependencies do not constitute grounds for slashing
and burning them; other considerations, however, provide sufficient support for
this, IMHO.
> Review and potentially remove unused/unsupported Contribs
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-2981
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2981
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Grant Ingersoll
> Fix For: 3.2, 4.0
>
> Attachments: LUCENE-2981.patch
>
>
> Some of our contribs appear to be lacking for development/support or are
> missing tests. We should review whether they are even pertinent these days
> and potentially deprecate and remove them.
> One of the things we did in Mahout when bringing in Colt code was to mark all
> code that didn't have tests as @deprecated and then we removed the
> deprecation once tests were added. Those that didn't get tests added over
> about a 6 mos. period of time were removed.
> I would suggest taking a hard look at:
> ant
> db
> lucli
> swing
> (spatial should be gutted to some extent and moved to modules)
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