Robert ... I'm sorry but changes to Analyzers don't *force* people to reindex. They can simply choose not to use the latest version. They can choose not to upgrade a Unicode version. They can copy the entire Analyzer code to match their needs. Index format changes is what I'm worried about because that *forces* people to reindex.
Analyzers, believe it or not, are just a tool, an out of the box tool even, we're giving users to analyze their stuff. Probably a tool used by most of our users, but not all. Some have their own tools, that are currently wrapped as a Lucene Analyzer just because the API mandates. But we were talking about that too recently no? Ripping Analyzer off IndexWriter? Just to be clear - I think your work on Analyzers is fantastic ! Really ! Seriously ! But it's a choice someone can make ... whereas index format is a given - you have to live with it, or never upgrade Lucene. But I think we've chewed that way too much. I am all for removing bw on Analyzers, and 2396 is a great step towards it (or maybe it is IT?). Even index format - I don't see when it will change next (but I think I have an idea ...), so we can tackle it then. Shai On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Shai Erera <ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actually, I'd like to know if people like Robert (basically those who have >> no problem to reindex and don't understand the fuss around it) will want to >> change the index format - can I count on them to be asked to provide such >> tool? That's to me a policy we should decide on ... whatever the >> consequences. >> > > just look at the 1.8MB of backwards compat code in contrib/analyzers i want > to remove in LUCENE-2396? > are you serious? I wrote most of that cruft to prevent reindexing and you > are trying to say I "don't understand the fuss about it"? > > We shouldnt make people reindex, but we should have the chance, even if we > only do it ONE TIME, to reset Lucene to a new "Major Version" that has a > bunch of stuff fixed we couldnt fix before, and more flexibility. > > because with the current policy, its like we are in 1.x forever.... our > version numbers are a joke! > -- > Robert Muir > rcm...@gmail.com >
