Hi all, I maintain the Debian package for Lucene. On the off chance that provides any clout, I want to add my voice to Bill Janssen below. Better versioning (that marks data level compatibility) is a big deal and I'd really like to see it in Lucene as soon a practical.
Cheers, Jeff ======== Jeff, there are two important versioning problems with Lucene. The first is that there is no way to tell from "inside" Java which version of Lucene you have. There should be some top level class, perhaps org.apache.lucene.VERSION, which contains at least three variables, "majorVersion", "minorVersion", and "microVersion", so that a user program can check which version of the system they are using. The second is that, given a Lucene index directory, you have no way of knowing which version of Lucene this index is compatible with. There should be format version numbers in the index directory, so that you can tell which version of the index format to use. It would also be useful if the VERSION class had a parameter which would tell you what version of the index file format this Lucene would create, and which versions it could read. If you had all of these, you could point a program at an index, and have a fair chance of being able to tell whether or not your program could read it. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
