: How hard would it be to allow subdirectories under example/solr/lib? it would be fairly easy to implement, but it would change some existing behavior.
Right now each item in the lib dir is treated as a classpath entry -- which means you can put jar files in the lib directory, but you can also have directories contianing java namespaces of class files in the lib directory as well (ie: exploded jar files) so something like this currently works... my_solr_home/lib my_solr_home/lib/my-special-faceting-component.jar my_solr_home/lib/my-custom-analyzer.zip my_solr_home/lib/my-cool-request-handler my_solr_home/lib/my-cool-request-handler/org my_solr_home/lib/my-cool-request-handler/org/fucit/ my_solr_home/lib/my-cool-request-handler/org/fucit/MyHandler.class my_solr_home/lib/my-cool-request-handler/org/fucit/MyHandlerUtils.class ... (or at least: it worked when I original wrote the code) : Seems like it would be nice to allow jars to be partitioned, so : everything related to solr cell could be put under the I agree, being able to organize jars under lib seems like a far more useful feature then supporting package hieracies of class files -- anybody downloading a plugin is probably going to get a jar (or a set of jars). anyone writitng their own plugin should know how to jar up a directory. a one line note in the Upgrading section of CHANGES should be good enough in case changing this does actually affect someone. -Hoss
