On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
>> The computer should handle that
>> for me. It really should be as easy
>> as saying, look I want the best new defaults, or I want the back compat
>> defaults. The computer should figure
>>
Yonik Seeley wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
The computer should handle that
for me. It really should be as easy
as saying, look I want the best new defaults, or I want the back compat
defaults. The computer should figure
out the rest for me.
actsAsVersion ;
I'm not against back compatibility. In fact, I agree with your
points, especially the use of the phrase "commonly used interfaces".
My main problem is our approach seems to be very dogmatic and
detrimental for _less_ commonly used interfaces (more importantly less
commonly _implemented_ In
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> The computer should handle that
> for me. It really should be as easy
> as saying, look I want the best new defaults, or I want the back compat
> defaults. The computer should figure
> out the rest for me.
actsAsVersion ;-)
nice and back compa
As far as default settings, it seems like it can be mostly fixed with
documentation (i.e. recommended settings for maximum performance).
That seems like a very small burden for people writing new
applications with Lucene anyway (compare to the cost of writing the
whole application). On the othe
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
>> Well... Lucene still seems to be experiencing strong adoption/growth,
>> eg combined user+dev email traffic:
>> http://lucene.markmail.org/
>
> I think that includes all Lucene sub-projects (Solr, Tika, Mahout,
> Nutch, Droids, etc).
>
> http
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
> I'm starting to feel like the lone holdout that thinks back compat for
> commonly used interfaces and index formats is important. So I'll sum
> up some of my thoughts and leave it at that:
>
> - I doubt that the number of new users for each re
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Michael McCandless
wrote:
> Well... Lucene still seems to be experiencing strong adoption/growth,
> eg combined user+dev email traffic:
> http://lucene.markmail.org/
I think that includes all Lucene sub-projects (Solr, Tika, Mahout,
Nutch, Droids, etc).
http://lu
Well... Lucene still seems to be experiencing strong adoption/growth,
eg combined user+dev email traffic:
http://lucene.markmail.org/
Net/net, I also think that back-compat is important and we shouldn't
up and abandon it or relax our policy too much.
However, I wish we had better tools for *im
Yonik Seeley wrote:
I'm starting to feel like the lone holdout that thinks back compat for
commonly used interfaces and index formats is important.
I think the fact that your not the only one is why things got stymied.
I wouldnt personally support anything that didnt try and maintain
stabili
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