>>> Grant Ingersoll 12/26/2006 10:12 PM >>> >Hi Eric, > >Take a look at http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/releases.html > >Clicking through to the appropriate mirror, download/unzip >lucene-2.0.0.zip. In it you'll find the jars, contrib, README, demo, >etc. It really should contain everything you need outside of the >actual Lucene source to get started.
ok, I feel really stupid now. I don't know how I missed that before. I guess I wasn't expecting much more than the jar file to be in the zip. Thanks for pointing that out. >I appreciate your comments on the docs. You have many good >suggestions for improvements, especially the definitions, etc. Some For a start, how about changing java/docs/releases.html to briefly explain what's in the release: --- releases.html.old 2006-12-28 10:04:39.470041600 -0600 +++ releases.html 2006-12-28 10:14:13.144945600 -0600 @@ -200,6 +200,11 @@ <p>Both binary and source releases are available for <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/">download from the Apache Mirrors</a> </p> +<p> + The zip file contains the lucene-core jar file, html documentation, a demo + application and various jar files containing contributed code. <br> + If all you need is the core jar file you can download that separately. +</p> </div> @@ -218,4 +223,4 @@ 2006 <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">The Apache Software Foundation.</a> </div> </div> -</body></html> \ No newline at end of file +</body></html>