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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
