: Hmm, actually this is probably too restrictive. But maybe we could say : that Lucene 3.0 doesn't have to be able to read indexes built with : versions older than 2.0?
that is in fact the position that lucene has had since as long as i've ben involved with it... http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BackwardsCompatibility >> File formats are back-compatible between major versions. Version X.N >> should be able to read indexes generated by any version after and >> including version X-1.0, but may-or-may-not be able to read indexes >> generated by version X-2.N. 3.X must be able to read file created by 2.Y (where X and Y can be any number) -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]