Actually we might want to check to see if the grammars are the same between 4.3 and 4.8, and if so, we can just use the code from the branch_4x branch.
Paul Irwin Lead Software Engineer feature[23] Email: [email protected] Cell: 863-698-9294 On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Paul Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd caution against reinventing the wheel on the parsing right now. It may > be a faster path to just convert the generated java parsers into C# using > an automated tool, as I did on my earlier Lucene 4.3 porting so I can > attest to it. I was able to validate that they parsed correctly and even > used that ported code in a production app. Rewriting a parser may not be > the best use of time right now -- although I can certainly see the value in > doing so later on. > > You can use my little utility to convert the syntax of entire files at > once: https://github.com/paulirwin/javatocsharp > > > Paul Irwin > Lead Software Engineer > feature[23] > > Email: [email protected] > Cell: 863-698-9294 > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Hakeem Mohammed <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks Itamar and Laimonas. I appreciate the details and glad to help . I >> got started on Expressions and half way there. I'm using Antlr 4.3 for the >> parsing. Please let me know if that is what y'all were planning to use >> anyway. I'll get to the index tests in core after that >> >> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Itamar Syn-Hershko <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Hakeem, welcome on board! >> > >> > Laimonas's response is spot on, let us know if you have any further >> > questions. >> > >> > I personally don't have any preference - once we get to 0 test failures >> in >> > the core we will concentrate on finishing porting the rest of the >> > sub-projects (Analysis.Common, Codecs, Suggest) with all their tests, >> and >> > then porting more sub-projects. >> > >> > So I guess pick whatever you think you'd enjoy most, just make sure to >> keep >> > us in the loop! >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Itamar Syn-Hershko >> > http://code972.com | @synhershko <https://twitter.com/synhershko> >> > Freelance Developer & Consultant >> > Author of RavenDB in Action <http://manning.com/synhershko/> >> > >> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Hakeem Mohammed <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > I just joined this group and looking to offer some help in updating >> > Lucene >> > > to 4.8. I briefly skimmed thru but could not find any items related to >> > the >> > > 4.x work. I'd very much appreciate it if someone can let me know the >> > > process for picking up items to work on. I spent a couple weeks >> updating >> > an >> > > outdated branch of Lucene, so trying to avoid that mistake again :) >> > > >> > > Thanks! >> > > >> > >> > >
