Since the switch to the new Apache CMS, a year ago, the PyLucene website has been a shameful wreck.
I don't have the spare cycles to spend the time to fix it. Call it an unfunded mandate (timewise). The good news is that anyone can actually fix it and send in patches to get applied to the public site. You can either check out the sources or use the interactive interface on the Apache CMS itself. It would be nice to inherit the look from the main Lucene site as well as its buttons. See Lucene bug 2748 for details, especially Grant's comment from 06/Aug/2011 22:13. Clearly, the PyLucene site needs volunteers. It's not a huge task other than the learning curve if battling with css and markdown. Any takers ? Andi.. On Aug 8, 2012, at 16:42, "Thomas Koch" <k...@orbiteam.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm also running Mac OS now (besides windows still ,-) and was able to build > & install PyLucene 3.6.0.2 on MacOS-X (10.7/intel/Python2.7) without any > problems - that's the good news. > > > > However it was quite difficult for me to get the download files and > installation instructions: > > > > Download: > > ------------- > >> From http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/ there is no visible download link > (it even does not contain the word "Download"). There is a hint "Source > distributions are available > <http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/pylucene/> here." on the main > page, below "News", though. > > > > The Install page at http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/install.html has a > download link in the news on the bottom of the page: > > "Lucene can be downloaded from > <http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-3x-redir.html?> > http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-3x-redir.html " ,but this page > only lists the Java version. > > > > In the end I did open this manually "crafted" URL > www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/ and was able to browse to a /pylucene/ > folder. (because I didn't see the "source dist" hint in the first place). > > > > Install: > > -------- > > On the Install page at http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/install.html there > are broken links: > > "see JCC's <site:jcc/documentation/install> installation instructions " -> > site:jcc/documentation/install > > > > The file INSTALL in the distribution says > > -- > > Please see doc/documentation/install.html or > > http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/documentation/install.html > > -- > > But there is no "doc" directory in the distribution! (Same for README which > points to non-existing 'doc/documentation/readme.html' - and the jcc/README > and jcc/INSTALL). Possibly the doc-dir just slipped through the build > process . (I've seen this directory before) > > > > There was some discussion about fixes to the website on the mailing list, so > I thought this would be worth mentioning. > > > > Note there is a nice download button on the Java Lucene site at > lucene.apache.org - that's probably the first thing most devs are looking > for ,-) > > > > > > regards > Thomas >
