Dmitry and others, One of the relatively frequently asked for features is 'conceptual search', or 'search by similarity', etc. Lucene does not store term vectors in its index, so such searches cannot be supported.
However, almost two years ago, Dmitry provided a large set of patches that added term vector support to Lucene. We never applied those patches for some reason, even though the patches looked really good. The other day I looked at Dmitry's two year old email again. I applied a few diffs to my copy of Lucene and added new classes that Dmitry wrote in order to add term vector support, to the source tree. Unfortunately, lots of classes changed over the last two years, and not all patches will apply. I was wondering, Dmitry, if you have your term vector changes integrated with the current version of Lucene. If you do, would it be possible for you to send the patches again? Also, I noticed that a large portion of those patches contained a good amount of documentation (code comments, Javadocs). Dmitry obviously studied the code in depth :) I will try extracting at least the documentation from that contribution. Finally, Dmitry, if you have term vector support in your local copy of the current Lucene sources, how are you going to make patches containing only the changes that you outlined in the recent email? Are term vector changes gone or....? Thanks, Otis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
