: Lucene is not a word processor. It is a development library. I think : an understanding of any development library is essential to using it : properly. Once you have even a basic understanding of the Lucene : design, it is very clear as to why deletes are performed using the : IndexReader.
Understanding why IndexReader does deletes is a good idea, but it doesn't make it any less useful to have a simple efficient mechanism for mixing deletes and adds -- no matter how well you may understand the theory, doesn't mean you want to have to reimpliment efficient IndexWriter/IndexReader handling for mixing adds and deletes in every app you write until the end of time -- but writing a reusable API to do this at a "high level" results in an ineffeciant API, so we need some changes at the lowever level to facilitate making complex tasks more efficient. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
