As I'm no Java programmer, I might be wrong, but I think the port is needed because of the underlying class libraries (BCL).
Cheers, Ali Shafai -----Original Message----- From: David Smiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2008 4:32 PM To: lucene-net-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Why translated to C#? Doesn't the CLR avoid the need for ports? Hi; I stumbled across Lucene.Net. I'm a Java developer, not a C#/.Net dev. I thought there is an option or two for Java programs to run on Microsoft's cool Common-Language-Runtime. If so, it seems to me quite odd that Lucene.Net would need to be ported to another programming language. Part of the beauty of the CLR is that you don't need to do these sorts of things. Because it's a common runtime and different languages can interoperate (within reason). Even though whatever Java implementation for the CLR isn't a perfect replica of Sun's implementation and would necessitate some changes to Lucene, it's hard for me to believe that doing a language port would make more sense than working on those tweaks. Please fill me in on the rationale. You might want to put the response in a FAQ somewhere. The website doesn't have one. Thanks. ~ David Smiley
