: I agree that a user of the sort parameter wouldn't want their query : string munged as a side effect of not supplying sort, or setting it to : blank, on some request. But having an explicit parameter to control : every aspect of legacy behavior could certainly lead to nasty parameter : bloat...
it could .. but it wouldn't need to be specified as part of every request it could be baked into the solrconfig .. we could even make the default behavior be to not bother with the ";" syntax, and document in the CHANGES.txt that people who want the old behavior need to explicitly add some default param to get it (we already have a comment to the same affect regarding json.nl=map) : How about officially deprecating the ;sort behavior, bumping the current : version attribute to 2.3 or 2.5, and using that to control whether the : sort==null fork is chosen? I haven't been able to keep track of the "version" is a param that (to date) only influences the XmlResponseWriter (aka: standard) it has never been used to influence execution logic. -Hoss
