With all due respect, it's myopic opinions like yours and Michael's (his leans more towards apathy) which will harm the ability to get the project into the hands of people.
I think (hope?) it can be agreed upon that the more that people are aware of Lucene.NET, the better it is for the project in general, and most importantly, the more potential that you have that someone will *contribute back* to it (and given what Lucene.NET has gone through in the past year, it desperately needs that participation). The fact of the matter is that Nuget puts packages in the hands of .NET developers, that leads to exposure and regardless of personal opinions on whether or not they *like* Nuget, it can't be denied that it's an *extremely* popular way to get libraries into people's projects. If you want to quibble over the actual numbers (and the definition of "extremely popular") then that's fine, but here are the numbers you want: http://stats.nuget.org/ If you want to just tell that audience to take a leap, that's fine, but I think it would be foolish to do so otherwise. Additionally, given that Lucene.NET is already on Nuget, isn't there *any* concern that there isn't an official distro? Aren't you concerned about the integrity of the brand that so many of you fought to keep alive over the past year? There's no guarantee that what's on Nuget will be the official releases/builds that come out of this project, and I'm a little surprised there isn't more concern over that aspect either. Just my $0.02 - Nick -----Original Message----- From: Digy [mailto:digyd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:06 PM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: [Lucene.Net] Nuget, Lucene.Net, and Your Thoughts I am not against it, but personally think it as a toy. I am from the generation where people used vi to write codes. DIGY -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Powell [mailto:m...@aaron-powell.com] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 1:56 AM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: [Lucene.Net] Nuget, Lucene.Net, and Your Thoughts Any particular reason you guys are not interested in NuGet? Aaron Powell MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member http://apowell.me | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | Github | BitBucket -----Original Message----- From: Digy [mailto:digyd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 7:42 AM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: [Lucene.Net] Nuget, Lucene.Net, and Your Thoughts Sorry, but I feel the same as Neal. DIGY -----Original Message----- From: Granroth, Neal V. [mailto:neal.granr...@thermofisher.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:08 PM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: [Lucene.Net] Nuget, Lucene.Net, and Your Thoughts No interest in Nuget whatsoever. - Neal -----Original Message----- From: Michael Herndon [mailto:mhern...@wickedsoftware.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:57 PM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org; lucene-net-u...@lucene.apache.org Subject: [Lucene.Net] Nuget, Lucene.Net, and Your Thoughts We're taking a quick poll over the next few days to see how people would like use Lucene.Net through Nuget on the developers mailing list** Currently version 2.9.2 is hosted on nuget.org, but that package was not create by the project maintainers, thus nuget is not currently set up in source. Going forward, we would like to continue what someone else started by creating nuget packages for Lucene.Net. Right now there are two packages: Lucene & Lucene.Contrib. My question to the community is do you wish to finer grain packages, i.e. a package for each contrib project or continue to keep it simple. The granular approach will let you use only what you need. We can also create additional higher level packages which have dependencies on the other ones. Possibly a Lucene.Net-Essentials and Lucene.Net-Full. Or we can keep it simple and continue with only two packages. My concerns are that the granular approach might overwhelm people with choice. The simple choice might be considered bloat for importing and then installing assemblies that you might never use. Another topic to converse about is would you like to see an out-of-band project nuget feed for nightly builds, branches with new or experimental features, or stable code snapshots for a projected release? ** when you post, please respond to lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org. This was posted to both lists to make sure everyone subscribed to both lists has a chance to voice their use cases or concerns. ----- Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4510 - Release Date: 09/21/11 ----- Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4510 - Release Date: 09/21/11
