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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-4399:
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I wasn't saying i was totally against the idea btw, i was just trying to invite
some discussion..., just to explain
my rationale:
Personally I dont think its that great we have version numbers in our default
codec, I was the one that proposed this
because its simple on our end as Lucene developers to implement backwards
compatibility this way: but it encourages
some code duplication and stuff like that: which is in my mind, a lesser evil
than conditionals inside one "mega-impl"
like before, that must handle different binary formats.
And i think this is pretty contained to expert users: most people will just
create an indexwriter and be oblivious to this.
As far as alternative things in codecs/, I feel it would be best to not add
complication for back-compat, instead to
try to keep these implementations simple. If we start adding versioning and
back compat to them, then we are basically
expanding our backwards compatibility commitments to N versions * M formats,
which is something that requires a very
big discussion.
> Rename AppendingCodec to Appending40Codec
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> Key: LUCENE-4399
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4399
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Assignee: Adrien Grand
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.0
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> In order AppendingCodec to follow Lucene codecs version, I think its name
> should include a version number (so that, for example, if we get to releave
> Lucene 4.3 with a new Lucene43Codec, there will also be a new
> Appending43Codec).
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