By all means Robert ... by all means :). Remember who started that thread, and for what reason :D.
Shai On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
