[sword-devel] FFe application for sword being considered, and patches split out

[Greg Hellings]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:55 PM, DM Smith<dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
> On 08/31/2009 12:55 PM, Matthew Talbert wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM, DM Smith<dmsmith at crosswire.org>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 08/31/2009 12:42 PM, DM Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't think the solution regarding segfaults on a search of only
>>>> stopwords is the right way to solve the problem. The problem is in
>>>> clucene
>>>> or an inappropriate use of it. A bug should be entered into the clucene
>>>> project for it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The bug has already been reported and fixed:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2088975&group_id=80013&atid=558446
>>> It is fixed in 0.9.23.
>>>
>>
>> The problem is that 0.9.23 is considered "unstable", therefore it
>> isn't included in any of the distros. The problem will have to be
>> worked around until they have another stable release.
>>
>
> I'm supposing that clucene's interface is like Java Lucene's as it is a
> faithful port. If so the stopword list is available.
>
> For a fix that doesn't break backward compatibility. How about getting the
> stopword list from the analyzer and checking the query for those words. If
> any are found then gracefully fail the query, or merely delete them and
> potentially create a bad query, or ...

Or, rather than implement a complete non-solution, you could fix the
problem, make all previous indices obsolete, and force the user to
recreate them.

--Greg

>
> In Him,
>    DM
>
>
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