On Mar 10, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Mark Miller wrote: > On 03/10/2010 01:48 PM, Robert Muir wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Shai Erera<ser...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I wrote that I defaulted to Whitespace for convenience reasons only. Now you >>> don't need to specify anything if you don't care how the content is indexed, >>> which is really the case for TONS of tests. The code became so much simpler. >>> >> I guess I don't see it this way. It may be convenient for us, but its >> inconvenient >> for new users, as they see it as 'lucene's default'. No one wants to do more >> work than is necessary: currently a lot of people use StandardAnalyzer for >> this >> reason, maybe without a lot of thought. but this is ok. >> StandardAnalyzer at least >> does things like lowercasing. >> >> >>> For those who do care, they anyway pay attention to it :). >>> >> I see it as the inverse: I would rather our tests have "new >> WhitespaceAnalyzer" >> than see users complain on java-user mailing list that lucene doesn't >> ignore case >> differences or punctuation, because they don't need to think about this. >> >> Whitespace is a shitty default for a search engine, its only good for tests. >> >> >> > > +1. I don't think we should default an Analyzer. I agree that > WhiteSpaceAnalyzer is not a good default. And I don't think > Standard is a good default. I'm in agreement that you should have to specify > to force thinking about it. >
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