Let us have another JIRA issue for spring specific discussions. Let us trash it out there so that all the points we make here do not get lost when we actually have to make that decision.
I am suggesting this because , whenever we discuss something something related to config this crops up and hijacks the real issue. --Noble On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: >> >> I don't really drink from the "Spring would solve all our config/init >> problems" Kool-Aid > > Me neither, even though I'm a proponent of Solr aiming in that direction. > In fact, I think Spring has the potential to make it much more > convoluted/complicated to configure Solr (depending on how it's done). > > Spring-centric thinking benefits Solr by aiding in the design of things like > IndexSchema and SolrConfig - such that they would not have a > dependency/requirement that XML be involved at all. > > Springifying Solr doesn't mean littering Solr with Spring dependencies - it > really should be vastly cleaner than that, such that Spring is NOT required > to configure Solr at all (and this is the design benefit I see possible). > > I'd really love to see Solr get _out_ of dealing with configuration so > directly instead spending our time on ugly tangential stuff. > > Erik > > -- --Noble Paul
