The "old" API is deprecated, and therefore when we release 2.9 there might be some people who'd think they should move away from it, to better prepare for 3.0 (while in fact this many not be the case). Also, we should make sure that when we remove all the deprecations, this will still exist (and therefore, why deprecate it now?), if we think this should indeed be kept around for at least a while longer.
I personally am all for keeping it around (it will save me a huge refactoring of an Analyzer package I wrote), but I have to admit it's only because I've got quite comfortable with the existing API, and did not have the time to try the new one yet. Shai On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Miller wrote: > >> I don't know how I feel about rolling the new token api back. >> >> I will say that I originally had no issue with it because I am very >> excited about Lucene-1458. >> >> At the same time though, I'm thinking Lucene-1458 is a very advanced issue >> that will likely be for really expert usage (though I can see benefits >> falling to general users). >> >> I'm slightly iffy about making an intuitive api much less intuitive for an >> expert future feature that hasn't fully materialized in Lucene yet. It >> almost seems like that fight should weigh towards general usage and standard >> users. >> >> I don't have a better proposal though, nor the time to consider it at the >> moment. I was just more curious if anyone else had any thoughts. I hadn't >> realized Grant had asked a similar question not long ago >> with no response. Not sure how to take that, but I'd think that would >> indicate less problems with people than more. On the other hand, you don't >> have to switch yet (with trunk) and we have yet to release it. I wonder how >> many non dev, every day users have really had to tussle with the new API >> yet. Not many people complaining too loudly at the moment though. >> >> Asking for a roll back seems a bit extreme without a little more support >> behind it than we have seen. >> >> - Mark >> > > PS > > I know you didnt ask for a rollback Grant - just kind of talking in a > general manner. I see your point on getting the search side in, I'm just not > sure I agree that it really matters if one hits before the other. Like Mike > says, you don't > have to switch to the new API yet. > > -- > - Mark > > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
