: May be a bit late and not strictly about the Multicore "default" discussion : but trying to aggregate the ideas; : What about an "alias/unalias" feature that would allow managing multiple : aliases (at least one) for each core?
this is pretty much exactly what i was suggesting in the first message in this thread, with the suggested ADDNAME REMOVENAME and MOVENAME options ... where the only thing that uniquely identifies a core is the solr home dir of it's config files ... cores could have many names/aliases which could be changed at any moment to point at other cores. if people don't like the idea of the config dir path being hte only thing that uniquely ids a core, then we could easily say every core has one and only one "name" that can't be changed, but every core can have many aliases that's fine too ... my worry is that we'd wind up wanting to use names and aliases pretty interchangable when doing queries and updates, but then people might get confused when they want to "move" a name from one core to another and it's not allowed but it is okay to move an alias. -Hoss
