If you really believe this. then you have no problem if i remove all Version from all core and contrib analyzers right now.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Shai Erera <ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
