[Xapian-devel] GSoC 2012: Backend for Lucene format indexes

[Han Jiang]

ojwb have also suggested this on the IRC channel, thanks olly!

Cheers.
Billy

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:08:47AM +0800, Han Jiang wrote:
> > As far as I know, the operation of index file, e.g. IndexReader, has
> > changed quite some (Lucene3.5 File
> > Format<
> http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_5_0/fileformats.html#Index%20File%20Formats
> >)
> > , while the idea page itself still linked to an old 3.0
> > version<
> http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_0_3/fileformats.html
> >.
> > Since it doesn't seem a simple work to cope with all the versions, shall
> we
> > just implement to support the old 3.0 format, or a more stable version?
>
> Thanks for noticing this - this idea was carried over from last year's
> list, and that's why the link points to an old version.  I've updated
> the link on the wiki to the newer one you gave above.
>
> I think it makes sense to support the latest version as the priority,
> with support for older versions possibly useful if there's time.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>



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Han Jiang

EECS, Peking University, China
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