On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Bruno Albuquerque <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, and it matches with my original understanding about what should be > done. I got doubts when I saw the modules directory with snowball in it. > > Lucene appears to support a lot more languages out of the box. Are there > plans for Lucy to support other languages? (even if Lucy has no formal > notion of language support, this is an important part of IR).
Lucene is a gigantic project with an army of developers working on it. It's not realistic to shoot for feature parity, and if we tried, we would be so busy porting cruft that we couldn't achieve the two priorities that matter most to present members of the Lucy development community: adding support for more programming languages to our symbiotic object system "Clownfish", and refactoring Lucy's matching framework to facilitate certain assembler-level optimization techniques. If new members of the Lucy community were to contribute support for additional languages, though, we'd presumably find ways to acommodate them. Marvin Humphrey
