Re: Proposal Stage: Backwards Compatibility / Support

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Herndon
I could probably take a stab at Sharpen this weekend. I need to pull down the java version of lucene anyways. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Prescott Nasser wrote: > > For number 2, you're spot on - free to the Lucene.Net project is probably > the relevant piece. Someone mentioned having an open

Re: Proposal Stage: Backwards Compatibility / Support

2011-01-05 Thread Wyatt Barnett
Scripted, automated and repeatable are mantras to live by. Why not take it all the way? What I mean by this is setting up the new, fresh, Lucene 3.0 project to do something like the following: 1) setup a CI server that grabs the current stable java source automatically from SVN and runs our conve

Re: Proposal Stage: PR/Marketing/Branding

2011-01-05 Thread Wyatt Barnett
Some ideas to pursue: 1) Get lucene into nuget. Given nuget has Microsoft's weight behind it, it is going to become the defacto way people find .NET libraries. This is relatively simple -- pretty much packaging the binaries with an xml file. We could the current release in there today, and follow

Re: Proposal Stage: Net Idiomatic Api Version

2011-01-05 Thread Wyatt Barnett
Anyone else get the feeling that Java and C# are kind of like British and American english -- two people separated by a nearly common language? As for inspiration, RavenDb might be a good place to start. It has native Lucene querying capabilities and the API is quite sexy and has a number of good