On 8/29/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe ... "contrib" in the "Java Lucene" project sense however is all java code, i would imagine that if someone wrote a perl utility to deal with index files it would not make sense to but in the Lucene "contrib" directory for that reason ... thre may be Java code submitted down the road that we think is useful enough to make available in releases, but niche enough that we on't want to put it in the main solr.war, which might be more along the lines of the "contrib" notion -- hence my suggestion of "clients" ... ...but i'm just thinking outloud at this point, i don't have a strong opinion either way.
Your point definately resonates. clients are also a rather important type of third-party contribution for a webapp thus a top-level directory makes sense. -Mike
