On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:43 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:
The folks working on Lucy are probably interested (Marvin & David).
Perhaps the first thing should be to specify the file format, then
implement it both in Java (for Lucene Java) and C (for Lucy).
Independent implementations will provide good compatibility
testing, and better validate the file format documentation.
The specification could initially live in the wiki.
What about a formal electronic specification of the file format? I
hesitate to suggest XML because there is no good reason XML makes
sense as a general purpose "language" (*wink* to Mr. Bray), but that
is at least a common denominator among all languages. An formal
process-able format specification would allow code generation of low-
level I/O functions, and, of course, the documentation itself in web
presentable form.
The way the current file format documentation is structured in a
computer-friendly way to digest it would be sweet. Food for thought.
Erik
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