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Doug Cutting commented on LUCENE-847: ------------------------------------- How public should such an API be? Should the interface be public? Should the implementations? The most conservative approach would be to make it all package private, to give more leeway for evolving the update API. But that also decreases the utility. Thoughts? > Factor merge policy out of IndexWriter > -------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-847 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-847 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Steven Parkes > Assigned To: Steven Parkes > Attachments: LUCENE-847.txt > > > If we factor the merge policy out of IndexWriter, we can make it pluggable, > making it possible for apps to choose a custom merge policy and for easier > experimenting with merge policy variants. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]