I'll vote yes please release new version with "too many files open" fixed.
There is no "too many files open bug", except perhaps in your application. It is however an easy to encounter problem if you don't close indexes or if you change Lucene's default parameters. It will be considerably harder to make happen in 1.4, to keep so many people from shooting themselves in the foot.
Also, releases are not made by popular election. They are made by volunteer developer when deemeed appropriate. If you'd like to get more involved in Lucene's development, please contribute constructive efforts to the lucene-dev mailing list.
Maybe default the setUserCompoundFile(true) to true on this go around.
This was discussed at lenght on the developer mailing list a while back. The change has been made and will be present in 1.4.
Otherwise, how can I get 1.3-RC2? I can't seem to locate it.
The second hit for a Google search on "lucene 1.3RC2" reveals:
http://www.apachenews.org/archives/000134.html
These search engines sure are amazing, aren't they!
Doug
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