Hi Brian, Do you think the suggestion of putting separating the core, contrib and scratchpad into different sub directories will not meet you needs of keeping the core repository small?
Thanks --Peter On 3/26/02 8:34 PM, "Brian Goetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My objection is not to either a contributions area or a scratchpad, its > to putting them in the lucene repo. > > Lucene is, right now, quite small. And that's a good thing! I think > keeping it small and simple has a lot of value. > > I think the proposed idea of putting the scratchpad in the commons is > fine, and I'd agree to that. I think that's what commons is for, > anyway. > > As far as contrib, here's my objection. contrib directories grow > pretty quickly, are rarely well indexed or documented, and tend to > decay -- eventually a lot of contributed code will stop building, if > not stop working. Contributed code is of varying levels of > usefulness, correctness, documentedness, and other qualities. > Eventually, the contrib area becomes a burden. And it often swamps > the size of the core source tree. > > I prefer making it a separate repo. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
