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Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-5859:
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bq. Why should I waste my time trying to convince anybody to remove a parameter
that does absolutely nothing today?
It seems like we basically have consensus on that issue already, but the answer
is, because this is a community project. That's why there is veto power, that's
just how things work if you want to make progress :)
bq. Don't worry, I won't remove any Version logic that is actually doing
something.
That's the broader issue that you seem to be after and the one that you
probably would need to convince people of. You are generally not bad at it, so
it seems silly to avoid it when a contentious issue comes up. This issue was
filed this morning. You threw up your hands on it hours later. A little intense
man :)
> Remove Version.java completely
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> Key: LUCENE-5859
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5859
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Fix For: 5.0
>
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> This has always been a mess: analyzers are easy enough to make on your own,
> we don't need to "take responsibility" for the users analysis chain for 2
> major releases.
> The code maintenance is horrible here.
> This creates a huge usability issue too, and as seen from numerous mailing
> list issues, users don't even understand how this versioning works anyway.
> I'm sure someone will whine if i try to remove these constants, but we can at
> least make no-arg ctors forwarding to VERSION_CURRENT so that people who
> don't care about back compat (e.g. just prototyping) don't have to deal with
> the horribly complex versioning system.
> If you want to make the argument that doing this is "trappy" (i heard this
> before), i think thats bogus, and ill counter by trying to remove them.
> Either way, I'm personally not going to add any of this kind of back compat
> logic myself ever again.
> Updated: description of the issue updated as expected. We should remove this
> API completely. No one else on the planet has APIs that require a mandatory
> version parameter.
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