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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:31:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Creating a complete Lucene distribution
To: Lucene Developers List <lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
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--- Jeff Linwood <jeff@greenninja.com> wrote:
> Moved to Dev....
> 
> Sounds like a decent idea to me.  I can get to work on making web
> pages 
> for some of these projects, but how many of them are still actively 
> maintained?

I'd link pretty much everything in sandbox/contributions:

ant - already linked
fulcrum - functional
indyo - already linked
javascript - functional
miscellaneous - single class, functional
parsers - single PDF extractor, not sure about functionality
searchbean - already linked
snowball - already linked
webcrawler-LARM - already linked
WordNet - functional
XML-Indexing-Dem0 - functional

There is also projects/appex, but I think that is pretty much abandoned
and may get superseded by LARM.

Thanks for helping.
Otis


> Jeff
> 
> Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> 
> >Hello Jeff,
> >
> >Thanks for offering your help.
> >My take on this is that those who are new to Lucene need to get
> >acquainted with the core Lucene first before they start needing
> things
> >like stemmers for different languages, a web crawler, etc.
> >
> >Then as long as we make it easy for people to read and learn about
> each
> >Sandbox project and make it easy for them to download their JARs, we
> >will make it simple for them to start using those projects.
> >
> >Currently only Indyo and LARM projects include
> overview/tutorial-like
> >documentation, but they do not provide pre-built JARs - the only way
> to
> >get them is from CVS directly, which is a bit more of a pain.
> >Snowball stemmers don't have any docs (do they even need them?), but
> >the project includes a link to the JAR, which makes it easy for a
> >developer to include it in their projects.
> >
> >SearchBean is buried completely, and so are all other Sandbox
> >contributions and projects (circa 10 of them).
> >
> >If you want to help I think it would be nice to expose some of those
> >contributions/projects the same way LARM, Indyo, and Snowball
> Stemmers
> >are.
> >I'm not sure if you feel like doing that, as it's not the most
> exciting
> >work :)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Otis
> >P.S.
> >This thread may be more suitable for lucene-dev - lucene-user
> >subscribers probably don't care about this type of decisions much.
> >
> >
> >--- Jeff Linwood <jeff@greenninja.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Is there any interest in creating an additional distribution for
> >>Lucene that
> >>contains some of the code from the sandbox and the contributions? 
> I
> >>was
> >>thinking about bringing in the SearchBean, LARM, the optional
> >>analyzers,
> >>etc. I know there has been  some discussion on this list of what
> >>should and
> >>shouldn't be in the core distribution, but I would like to have the
> >>option
> >>to download a complete distribution.  I think this will make it
> much
> >>easier
> >>to get started developing with Lucene.
> >>
> >>I guess the first step would be to see if other people on this list
> >>would be
> >>interested in this project at all, and then the next step would be
> to
> >>figure
> >>out what could go into an application framework build (licensing,
> >>dependent
> >>library issues, etc.), and to work on an Ant build file that calls
> >>the
> >>individual component files.
> >>
> >>I definitely don't want to replace the existing source and binary
> >>distributions of Lucene - this would be a larger, more bulky
> download
> >>for
> >>most people.
> >>
> >>Anyway, shoot it down if you like :)
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Jeff
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
> 
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