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Mark Miller commented on SOLR-1449: ----------------------------------- +1. I don't find the pluses overwhelming, but I find pluses. On the other hand, after reading all the comments, I don't see a single good reason against. Its a no brainer to me. I think I might have some time to play with it tomorrow. Will report back if I do. > solrconfig.xml syntax to add classpath elements from outside of instanceDir > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-1449 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1449 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Hoss Man > Fix For: 1.4 > > Attachments: SOLR-1449.patch, SOLR-1449.patch, SOLR-1449.patch > > > the idea has been discussed numerous times that it would be nice if there was > a way to configure a core to load plugins from specific jars (or "classes" > style directories) by path w/o needing to copy them to the "./lib" dir in > the instanceDir. > The current workaround is "symlinks" but that doesn't really help the > situation of the Solr Release artifacts, where we wind up making numerous > copies of jars to support multiple example directories (you can't have > reliable symlinks in zip files) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.