Mark, I created an issue for this. I just think you know, converting an analyzer to the new api is really not that bad.
reverse engineering what one of them does is not necessarily obvious, and is completely unrelated but necessary if they are to be migrated. I'd be willing to assist with some of this but I don't want to really work the issue if its gonna be a waste of time at the end of the day... On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Mark Miller<markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robert Muir wrote: >>> >>> As Lucene's contrib hasn't been fully converted either (and its been >>> quite >>> some time now), someone has probably heard that groan before. >>> >> >> hope this doesn't sound like a complaint, > > Complaints are fine in any case. Every now and then, it might cause a little > rant from me or something, but please don't let that dissuade you :) > Who doesnt like to rant and rave now and then. As long as thoughts and > opinions are coming out in a non negative way (which certainly includes > complaints), > I think its all good. >> >> but in my opinion this is >> because many do not have any tests. >> I converted a few of these and its just grunt work but if there are no >> tests, its impossible to verify the conversion is correct. >> > > Thanks for pointing that out. We probably get lazy with tests, especially in > contrib, and this brings up a good point - we should probably push > for tests or write them before committing more often. Sometimes I'm sure it > just comes downto a tradeoff though - no resources at the time, > the class looked clear cut, and it was just contrib anyway. But then here we > are ... a healthy dose of grunt work is bad enough when you have tests to > check it. > > -- > - Mark > > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
