I know it's been mentioned and hinted at in the past, but I wanted to - again - lodge a complaint regarding the inertia of CLucene use in the engine.
CLucene's last release, and last git commit on SourceForge was in 2013. It has had none of the language-specific updates that Lucene has generated upstream which is one of the best parts of the Lucene ecosystem. It has always suffered from GCC-on-Windows specific compile bugs, especially related to uses of pthread, and since upstream went defunct now 4 years ago there has been no movement to fix them correctly. Fixes need to be maintained by downstream teams. Even the native Linux packaging depends on a number of patches just to be able to compile, because upstream has no interest in even putting out a usable product. With the recent release of GCC 7, CLucene has become - once again - a FTBFS package on MinGW/Windows targets. This is going to necessitate dropping the package from the MinGW builds of Sword that I maintain for Fedora which will make future releases of Xiphos for Windows incapable of offering Lucene based searching. Is there any whiff of hope that we might be willing to move off of depending on CLucene for advanced search support and onto a project that has any amount of vitality? --Greg
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