i wanted to continue this here to not clog up the issue! Shai Erera commented on LUCENE-2285:
> bq. I'd be curious to know what you did > > Ok, now you've made me compare the two :). I'm happy to see we both did the > same thing, only you call your buffer 'current' while I call it 'buf'. > Besides that I've included a static final EMPTY_ARGS instead of all the > places where 'new Object[0]' is passed. Nothing too fancy. > hmm, i didnt think of this second optimization, does it affect generated code or is it in Among/SnowballProgram? > > Another thing is that I wrote an Arabic and Hebrew stemmer, and combined > them w/ the Snowball ones by introducing a stemmer class which can be either > Snowball or anything else. I'll check if we're allowed to contribute the > Hebrew stemmer to Lucene ... > please do. as far as integration goes, i guess we took a different approach with LUCENE-2055 (from the Analyzer perspective, the user does not care if it uses snowball or something else behind the scenes, etc). > BTW FYI - our legal department forbid us to use the Hungarian stemmer > because of licensing/legal issues. Besides the stemmers that were originally > provided, the Snowball project accepted additional ones like the Hungarian > stemmer. However, for that one we weren't able to get a confirmation from > the contributor his University indeed gave him permission to contribute the > code. Don't know if it matters to anyone here (I've notified Martin Porter > as well), but FYI. Our legal department does not permit us to use it (which > is not surprising - they are legal ...). I don't want to derail this issue > into Snowball discussion, so if you want to talk about it, I suggest we move > it to the list. this is concerning to me, i mean the thing is sitting there on the universities website: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/resources/snowball-hun :) but if apache is concerned about this situation too, someone let me know and i can take savoy's (clearly marked BSD) and we can add that instead, and remove the ambiguous snowball one, even if its temporary: http://members.unine.ch/jacques.savoy/clef/index.html -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
