No, 4x still works without it, so there's nothing really to be done. More
an observation that it's possible to be _really_ minimal....

Erick


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think solr.xml should be required. We already had this functionality for
> back compat and it's confusing.
>
> I don't think there are any benefits to allowing Solr to run without it.
>
> However, 4.x should still work without - if that has changed, that is a
> problem and it should be fixed. Only 5.x should require it.
>
> - Mark
>
> On Aug 30, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Erick Erickson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > As an experiment while writing a test, I played around with solr.xml and
> defined it this way:
> > <solr/>
> >
> > Starts up and runs just fine in core discovery mode since it defaults to
> core discovery mode in the absence of a <cores> tag. Of course all the
> defaults are used and you better have core.properties files in the right
> place and all that, but...
> >
> > So does it make sense to officially support a "no solr.xml" option?
> Removing solr.xml entirely barfs with "solr.xml does not exist in
> /Users/Erick/apache/trunk/solr/example/solr/solr.xml cannot start Solr" and
> an empty solr.xml results in an XML parsing error.
> >
> > I don't have strong feelings either way, but thought I'd throw it out
> for people to kick around.
> >
> > Worth a JIRA?
> >
> > Erick
>
>
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