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Shad Storhaug commented on LUCENENET-167:
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It's been more than 4 years since the last comment here and 9 years since it
was first proposed. Silverlight is now defunct. In Lucene.Net 4.8.0 we have
moved on to .NET Standard 1.5, which is the future of cross-platform, so we
automatically support Xamarin.Ios and Xamarin.Android.
That said, to support Windows Phone 8.1 we would need to be on .NET Standard
1.2 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard). The
question is, is there any interest in supporting it anymore?
I made an attempt to get us to .NET Standard 1.4 before, but we lose too many
APIs to be able to support all of the features (unless there is some way to add
back in the functionality through dependencies that I am unaware of). Changing
this seems very difficult. I don't think we should pursue this unless there is
genuine interest, which may have gone the way of the dodo already. So, if you
need Windows Phone support, speak now or forever hold your peace.
> Compact Framework & Silverlight Support
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>
> Key: LUCENENET-167
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENENET-167
> Project: Lucene.Net
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Lucene.Net Contrib, Lucene.Net Core, Lucene.Net Demo,
> Lucene.Net Test
> Reporter: Andrew C. Smith
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: silverlight
>
> Lucene.Net should support the Compact Framework & Silverlight versions of the
> .NET Framework.
> I've looked into what it might take to do this and most of it is pretty
> trivial to be able to support these frameworks. Most of what this would take
> is just changing the different type of classes to use for collection classes
> used inside of Lucene.Net.
> This does require changing some details in a lot of places, However this
> should *not* bring any compatibility issues with *Java Lucene*'s API or index
> format. It will just change the classes used to some different ones that the
> frameworks support and also maybe need 1 to 3 classes that might need to be
> implemented in Lucene.net itself.
> Having made these changes Lucene.Net can be more available to new devices
> such as running on a window mobile cell phone, or your pda, or run in a
> Windows, Linux, or Mac computer that runs a silverlight application. This
> will allow the .Net compact framework & silverlight developers to use
> Lucene.Net in their applications to provide their users with the same
> capabilities of an awesome search framework. Developers can also use
> Lucene.Net to provide them spell checking capabilities in these environments.
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