Sounds like a decent idea to me. I can get to work on making web pages for some of these projects, but how many of them are still actively maintained?
Jeff
Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
Hello Jeff,
Thanks for offering your help.
My take on this is that those who are new to Lucene need to get
acquainted with the core Lucene first before they start needing things
like stemmers for different languages, a web crawler, etc.
Then as long as we make it easy for people to read and learn about each
Sandbox project and make it easy for them to download their JARs, we
will make it simple for them to start using those projects.
Currently only Indyo and LARM projects include overview/tutorial-like
documentation, but they do not provide pre-built JARs - the only way to
get them is from CVS directly, which is a bit more of a pain.
Snowball stemmers don't have any docs (do they even need them?), but
the project includes a link to the JAR, which makes it easy for a
developer to include it in their projects.
SearchBean is buried completely, and so are all other Sandbox
contributions and projects (circa 10 of them).
If you want to help I think it would be nice to expose some of those
contributions/projects the same way LARM, Indyo, and Snowball Stemmers
are.
I'm not sure if you feel like doing that, as it's not the most exciting
work :)
Thanks,
Otis
P.S.
This thread may be more suitable for lucene-dev - lucene-user
subscribers probably don't care about this type of decisions much.
--- Jeff Linwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Is there any interest in creating an additional distribution for
Lucene that
contains some of the code from the sandbox and the contributions? I
was
thinking about bringing in the SearchBean, LARM, the optional
analyzers,
etc. I know there has been some discussion on this list of what
should and
shouldn't be in the core distribution, but I would like to have the
option
to download a complete distribution. I think this will make it much
easier
to get started developing with Lucene.
I guess the first step would be to see if other people on this list
would be
interested in this project at all, and then the next step would be to
figure
out what could go into an application framework build (licensing,
dependent
library issues, etc.), and to work on an Ant build file that calls
the
individual component files.
I definitely don't want to replace the existing source and binary
distributions of Lucene - this would be a larger, more bulky download
for
most people.
Anyway, shoot it down if you like :)
Thanks,
Jeff
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