That's the goal. After this port, we should be able to grab SVN commits into Java Lucene and port only those commits over. Then, the port will be open to everyone.
-- George -----Original Message----- From: Matt Honeycutt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Port of Java Lucene 2.9 is under way Ouch, that still sounds pretty un-fun. Maybe one day this project will hit the point where we can stay on top of the porting manually. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, George Aroush <[email protected]> wrote: > This question has came up in the past. You can search the mailing list for > my answers. Here is one, > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=jlca#query:jlca%20from%3A%22George%20Aroush%22 > +page:1+mid:3wylgpsujl2eyic7+state:results<http://markmail.org/search/?q=jlc a#query:jlca%20from%3A%22George%20Aroush%22%0A+page:1+mid:3wylgpsujl2eyic7+s tate:results> and another, > http://markmail.org/message/i2efusv256ay5oxr. > > No, I will never do copy / past / build / test / etc. JLCA, scripts that I > wrote, and deltas are my best friends for porting (free time is not). > > -- George > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Honeycutt [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Port of Java Lucene 2.9 is under way > > This may be an ignorant question, but what does the porting process > involve? My limited experience with porting Java to .NET was porting the > Weka COBWEB clustering algorithm. My approach there was very brute-force, > copy-paste, fix errors, build-and-test, and repeat. I hope there's a > better way of doing things when dealing with a large port like this. :) > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM, George Aroush <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm working on it. It will be another week or so before I have an alpha > or > > beta release. This is talking me longer than previous ports due to 1) > > considerable new files are added, 2) a good deal of refactoring was > > introduced in 2.9. > > > > I wish I can divide the work of the initial port, and ask the community > for > > help, but that's just not possible due to the way initial ports are done. > > > > -- George > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Artem Chereisky [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:57 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Port of Java Lucene 2.9 is under way > > > > Hi guys, > > > > where can I find the early release of 2.9 port? Is it going to be under > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene.net/? > > > > Regards, > > Art > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:32 PM, George Aroush <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > > > > > This is to let you know that I have begun the porting process of Java > > > Lucene > > > 2.9 to Lucene.Net. I hope in few weeks (maybe even next week) to have > an > > > early release checked-into SVN. > > > > > > > > > > > > If you are following Java Lucene mailing list, you will know that 2.9 > is > > > currently undergoing release as Release Candidate 4 and RC5 is expected > > (a > > > bug was found in RC4). My port is based on RC3, but changes between > Java > > > Lucene 2.9 RC3 and soon to come RC5 aren't major to side track my port. > > > > > > > > > > > > With 2.9 release, we should be able to keep Java Lucene and Lucene.Net > > > releases very close; my hope is, any further ports should be an > > > accumulation > > > of Java Lucene SVN commits ports vs. waiting for a new release to do a > > > chunk > > > release. I'm not sure if this goal can be achieved, but we will see. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > -- George > > > > > > > > > > > >
