Hi Folks,
I send this e-mail fully knowing that you must get a few big promises from new users from time to time and then they "disappear" and are never heard from again, Let me introduce myself, I am Karell, programmer from Canada - my primary language is French but am fluent in English and work with Americans all day. I have about 25 years of computer programming experience and am in charge of IT for my company (www.brainbankinc.com). I love the engine and would like to learn more about it and assist in improving it. While I'm not versed in any in the field of search engines, I am very proficient in the world of Windows Services, the .NET world and I'm allergic to people who like to use SQL for everything. I have a few questions in order to get my bearings: * Is there a particular reason why (it seems) that the latest version of Lucene (I looked in trunk and in the tags/2.4.0 folder) seem to be in a VS2005 format? * Are there any plans (since it seems to still be using VS2005 it would be using .NET 2.0 usually) to move to C# 3.0, WCF and a better threading system such as CCR? * I'm asking these questions because I'm interesting in becoming a contributor to the main engine itself and those are some of the changes that I would implement first. I use VS2008 (and will be using 2010 when out of Beta) since we are a Microsoft Partner and get the tool for free since we have the Customer App Dev competency. I don't have a problem using 2005 nor .NET 2.0 I'd just like to understand the requirements/reasoning if there are any. Thanks, Karell Ste-Marie ------------------------------- C.I.O. - BrainBank Inc MCP+I, MCP+SB, MCAD, MCSE Canada
