On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jacob Floyd wrote:
Simple question regarding the Makefile:
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$(REGEX_JAR): $(LUCENE_JAR)
rm -f
$(LUCENE)/contrib/regex/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/regex/JakartaRegexpCapabilities.java
rm -f
$(LUCENE)/contrib/regex/src/java/org/apache/regexp/RegexpTunnel.java
cd $(LUCENE)/contrib/regex; $(ANT) -Dversion=$(LUCENE_VER)
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Why was it necessary to remove these .java files? Is this a change
that needs to become part of lucene itself?
These file depend on yet another thirdparty project, Apache Regex (?), and I
didn't want to have a dependency on that. Given that Python has excellent
regular expression support, I replaced these files with a Python-based
implementation.
It turns out that the Python implementation is currently missing in
PyLucene (and has been since the move to JCC). I should have that
resurrected shortly but it involves a patch to the Lucene Regex contrib
package. You might want to consider skipping that contrib package in your
ebuild.
Andi..
In explanation:
I'm preparing PyLucene for distrobution on gentoo - and I need to get
it to work with the vanilla lucene jars, as that is another package,
and I can't patch it when PyLucene is installed.
Thanks,
Jacob Floyd
