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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:40:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: Proposal about Version API "relaxation"
From: Tim Williams <williamstw@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Uwe Schindler <uwe@thetaphi.de> wrote:
> Hi Shai,
>
>
>
> one of the problem I have is: That is a static default! We want to get rid
> of them (and did it mostly, only some relicts remain), so there are no plans
> to reimplement such a thing again. The badest one is
> BooleanQuery.maxClauseCount. The same applies to all types of sysprops. As
> Lucene and solr is mostly running in servlet containers, this type of thing
> makes web applications no longer isolated. This is also a general contract
> for libraries: never ever rely on sysprops or statics.

Do classpath resources fall in the same undesirable category?  (e.g.
put lucene.properties in your classpath with version=X.X).  Not great
but it'd get around the container challenge, right?

--tim

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