Not always, but quite often :-)amounts). I failed to find a way to get Lucene to give me this
information without hacking this or that. Considering the attention IR
Excuse me if this is off-topic, but isn't hacking the code what open source
software is all about?
I mean, its always better to try to do it withBecause you might need to put quite some effort into getting it right? Because you might do something someone else already did better -- which is not really against the spirit of hackerism, but I have so many other things to hack where I think I can do better than most people. Inverted file indexes is not my particular domain.
existing methods but if it can't, why not hack the source?
If it works andThat needs exposure. If some Lucene code is hidden in the Haystack project, it won't get enough exposure IMO.
people use it then it should probably be incorporated into the main source
tree. If poeple don't use it (or the hack is terribly ugly, which may be
what you were referring to) then it doesn't make the cut.
In either case,One of the important things about OSS for me is resuse and collaboration. If you hack things again and again without trying to turn it into something reusable, I'd say you constantly create small proprietary forks based on open source code but you are not part of any OSS effort. That's of course my point of view on OSS, but then you asked for it :-)
I'm just wondering why I see many questions or answers include this almost
standard reply. I hack the source regularly to acheive a needed goal.
Sure its not forward-compatible, but if I waited for the feature to be added
on its own, our project would never get off the ground.
As a user of Lucene I missed some features. Part of the OSS culture is for me to tell others about this and maybe to try to find solutions. Mark's code seems to be one, so I proposed to consider adding it into some spot with better exposure for testing. And I don't seem to be the only person with the need for these features. I think Lucene would be better if these features were easily available. If the Lucene team doesn't think so -- fair enough, it is their project. But asking me to stop requesting features in a (hopefully) sensible way is pretty much against the spirit of OSS and hacker culture as far as I understand it.
Does that answer your questions?
Peter
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