On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0700, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who is Nathan Kurz? :)
He's the ice cream man!
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/screamsorbet/2321354800/>
... and a long-standing member of the KinoSearch community.
> I'm simply asking because I'm trying to get a feel for Lucy's future -
> before Nathan shows up on the list a few weeks ago, the list was quit and
> Marvin was all alone.
I specifically requested that we move the discussion about file formats and
posting lists from the KinoSearch list to lucy-dev.
Some of the collaborative design work that Nate and I have done in the past, I
thought would be easy to argue in summation for Lucy. For example, we
reworked the boolean Query subclasses, replacing the port of Lucene's
BooleanQuery with ANDQuery, ORQuery, NOTQuery and RequiredOptionalQuery. The
arguments for this reorganization are easy to make from a high level.
The same cannot be said for the file format design issues. Thus, I wanted the
full record of that discussion in the Lucy mailing list archives.
Marvin Humphrey
http://www.rectangular.com/
