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Mark Miller commented on SOLR-3619:
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bq. so anything we provide OOTB will per definition be an example.
I think thats exactly why this issue came up in the linked to issue - we are
renaming it from example because we are recognizing people use it as the
default to built on. It's essentially out of the box Solr - even though we have
called it example, that how it effectively has worked out. Benchmarkers use it
as Solr when comparing to other search engines, users start from it and tweak
to the config they want. It defacto is out of the box Solr with all it's
default glory. Perhaps you want to trim your config options from our defaults -
perhaps you want to add or take away from the schema. That's fine - but it's
not like you are examining our example and then building your own install. It's
much more like you are tweaking the out of the box config.
I think calling it an example is a real turn off. People want to download new
software and get going without headaches. Seeing all this example stuff out of
the box makes things look difficult too even get started. What other software
works this way? All these issues are why I initially avoided Solr back in the
early days. It seemed like to much of a pain to get going. The trick it to make
it seem easy to get going. Then you dive in and figure out what you need to
tweak as you go. That's what people end up doing anyway, except they get to be
a little confused first. PHP/.Net or any non java guys looking to run Solr get
to go, "webapps? wars? java -jar start.jar? examples and no application? yikes
:( Damn Unix hackers!"
The others solrhomes are truly examples and have always been second class
citizens as far as additions and scope.
I was pro dropping the multicore example, but its very minimal and it's nice to
have an example of configuring more than one core. I could take it or leave it
- it's more palatable to me in the examples dir though.
I'm good with the bin folder for start/stop scripts (ive got another issue open
for that). I don't mind root level or under /server
I'm really pro having the default solr home under server though - away from the
other less practically useful examples (eg you probably want to merge the idea
of them with a lot of the config from the default solrhome).
Other opinions on that?
> Rename 'example' dir to 'server'
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> Key: SOLR-3619
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3619
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Mark Miller
> Assignee: Mark Miller
> Fix For: 4.0, 5.0
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> Attachments: SOLR-3619.patch, server-name-layout.png
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