Online javadocs: 1.9-rc1

2006-03-03 Thread Chris Hostetter
Someone with the neccessary permisions to update the javadocs on the website might want to do so, they currently say Lucene 1.9-rc1 API which might confuse people (even if the API is exactly the same as 1.9.1) http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/ -Hoss

Re: Online javadocs: 1.9-rc1

2006-03-03 Thread Doug Cutting
I just updated this. Thanks for catching it. Doug Chris Hostetter wrote: Someone with the neccessary permisions to update the javadocs on the website might want to do so, they currently say Lucene 1.9-rc1 API which might confuse people (even if the API is exactly the same as 1.9.1) http

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-03-02 Thread Shay Banon
Hi, I have just updated to lucene 1.9, and hit a problem with the mentioned optimization. I have applied it to the my JdbcBufferedOutput (I only duplicate the code because the BUFFER_SIZE is final), and I hit a problem. In the following code fragment (the method is writeBytes): ...

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-27 Thread DM Smith
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Daniel Naber wrote: On Freitag 24 Februar 2006 00:50, Doug Cutting wrote: Are these all modules that don't need external libs? So far as I know! I found another module that requires external libraries: regex. These are even defined in

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel Naber
On Sonntag 26 Februar 2006 02:42, Erik Hatcher wrote: I personally don't think we should be distributing any external   dependencies.  Whoever builds the releases needs to have the   dependencies locally, but 3rd party JARs, even Apache ones, should   not go along for the .tar/zip ride IMO.  

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-26 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 26, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Daniel Naber wrote: On Sonntag 26 Februar 2006 02:42, Erik Hatcher wrote: I personally don't think we should be distributing any external dependencies. Whoever builds the releases needs to have the dependencies locally, but 3rd party JARs, even Apache ones, should

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available: surround package.html files

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Elschot
On Saturday 25 February 2006 01:23, Chris Hostetter wrote: ... ...Which means this weekend would be a good time for contrib module owners to commit a quick one sentence package.html for each package in their module. Now that the contrib classes are built/bundled/distributed along with

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-25 Thread Daniel Naber
On Freitag 24 Februar 2006 00:50, Doug Cutting wrote: Are these all modules that don't need external libs? So far as I know! I found another module that requires external libraries: regex. These are even defined in the additional.dependencies property in the build.xml, but it seems it's

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available: surround package.html files

2006-02-25 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Thanks Paul, it's in. Otis - Original Message From: Paul Elschot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:09:25 AM Subject: Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available: surround package.html files On Saturday 25 February 2006 01:23, Chris Hostetter

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-25 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 25, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Daniel Naber wrote: On Freitag 24 Februar 2006 00:50, Doug Cutting wrote: Are these all modules that don't need external libs? So far as I know! I found another module that requires external libraries: regex. These are even defined in the

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Hostetter
: FYI, I think all of the commits to trunk since the RC1 release are safe : to merge to the 1.9 branch. They're mostly documentation improvements. : So my plan is currently, on Monday, to merge these changes to the 1.9 : branch, then make a 1.9-final release. I'll again announce it to the

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-23 Thread Daniel Naber
On Freitag 24 Februar 2006 00:33, Daniel Naber wrote: Shouldn't we include at least some package from contrib, like analyzers and highlighter? Sorry, I totally missed the contrib sub directory that contains everything I'm asking for... Are these all modules that don't need external libs?

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-23 Thread Doug Cutting
Daniel Naber wrote: Are these all modules that don't need external libs? So far as I know! They built without me downloading anything extra. FYI, I think all of the commits to trunk since the RC1 release are safe to merge to the 1.9 branch. They're mostly documentation improvements. So

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-22 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Doug Cutting wrote: 1.9 will be the last 1.x release. It is both back-compatible with 1.4.3 and forward-compatible with the upcoming 2.0 release. Many methods and classes in 1.4.3 have been deprecated in 1.9 and will be removed in 2.0. Applications must compile against 1.9 without

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-22 Thread Doug Cutting
Grant Ingersoll wrote: I am wondering what the motivation is for being forward compatible to 2.0. Is the only change from 1.9 to 2.0 going to be the removal of deprecated items? Pretty much, yes. Are we going to be preventing ourselves from making broader structural changes? My

Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Release 1.9 RC1 of Lucene is now available from: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/ This release candidate has many improvements since release 1.4.3, including new features, performance improvements, bug fixes, etc. For details, see: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Chris Hostetter wrote: I think moving forward the query parser and fileformat docs should be moved into docfile directories within the java source, so they are reved/tagged with the individual releases. That way when people have questions about the file format of their index built with 1.9 they

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-21 Thread Doug Cutting
Maxim Patramanskij wrote: Doug, what about including optimization of BuffereIndexOutput.writeBytes() method: [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-435?page=all ] made by Lukas Zapletal, into 1.9? I just committed this to trunk. If no issues arise with it there then perhaps we can

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
In reviewing the latest changes incorporated into release 1.9 RC1, I noticed a change responding to JIRA item LUCENE-306. According to the writeup, the new change forces the wildcard pattern 'cat??' to exactly match the length of the term (in this case, a five-letter term starting with 'cat

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
Yonik, No, I don't think that the riot* option would work for many queries. Let's take a simple case where you want a singular or plural form, like either cat or cats (which would be very common). With 1.4.x, you can use cat? to retrieve such matches. With the new change, you need to use

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Terry, Is there a reason you wouldn't use a stemming analyzer of some kind, which would match cat and cats but not cater, catches, etc? http://snowball.tartarus.org/demo.php Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/ On Feb 21, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Terry Steichen wrote:

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Hostetter
: of query). Under the previous versions of QueryParser, I could simply : specify 'riot???' and capture all of those variants. I don't have a strong opinion on this issue, but it seems clear to me that this was a bug in 1.4.3 not a change in the orriginally intended behavior.

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
Hoss, Whether the previous behavior (which I believe has been present in Lucene from the outset) was a bug or a feature is kind of academic. My point is that this behavior has value that's not countered by any argument that any significant value is added by eliminating it. As to your

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Hostetter
: In either case, what I'm arguing is that the current behavior makes more : sense in the real world of query expressions (that is, makes the most : common query expressions simpler), so why not continue it? I disagree with that statment. People familiar with shell globing are going to be

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-19 Thread Nadav Har'El
Dan Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/02/2006 08:50:53 PM: ... Short summary - The Constructor for IndexWriter currently will only create an index in a folder if you set the boolean create flag to true. But then, if you want to append to that index, you have to set the create flag to

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-19 Thread Tatu Saloranta
--- Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/02/2006 08:50:53 PM: ... So I'm not sure the solution is to change the semantics of the existing constructor, but I think Lucene definitely need a new constructor or convenience function that will do the

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-17 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
This week is pretty booked for me, so, barring major objections, I will make a 1.9 RC1 release next Monday, February 20th. If there are no problems discovered, I'll aim to make a 1.9 final release a week later, around the 27th. Has anyone tested if 1.9 can build with a Free Software

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Armbrust
I'd like to see this improvement request implemented - but I'm not sure if 1.9 or 2.0 would be a better place to do it: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-301 Short summary - The Constructor for IndexWriter currently will only create an index in a folder if you set the boolean create

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
I've been away from constant e-mail for several days (nice while it lasted, but rough to come back to!)... I'm +1 for 1.9 RC1, just for the record. As for the copyright years - those should reflect only the years those files were touched, at least that is how it is carefully done with Ant

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-15 Thread Maxim Patramanskij
Doug, what about including optimization of BuffereIndexOutput.writeBytes() method: [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-435?page=all ] made by Lukas Zapletal, into 1.9? I'm wondering, because this can decrease index creation time, which I discovered as critical when using Lucene

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:11 AM, DM Smith wrote: Not to get to far ahead, but what is the schedule relation between 1.9 and 2.0? What are the dependencies on releasing 2.0? My understanding is that 2.0 will be 1.9 with all the deprecated API removed. Maybe there are other features planned?

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-15 Thread DM Smith
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:11 AM, DM Smith wrote: Not to get to far ahead, but what is the schedule relation between 1.9 and 2.0? What are the dependencies on releasing 2.0? My understanding is that 2.0 will be 1.9 with all the deprecated API removed. Maybe there are other

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-14 Thread Doug Cutting
for me, so, barring major objections, I will make a 1.9 RC1 release next Monday, February 20th. If there are no problems discovered, I'll aim to make a 1.9 final release a week later, around the 27th. Doug - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: 1.9 RC1

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Hostetter
: This is a great time to improve the javadoc. I see lots of blank boxes : which could use a bit of descriptive text, for example: That reminds me about a documentation/release issue that's been rolling arround in the back of my mind that seems like it's only going to get worse as future