[sword-devel] Lucene Complaint

[DM Smith]

When I contributed to Lucene (Java version) there were folks there who lurked on the mailing lists that were part of the C port.

Anyway, I mention it as searching those lists or signing up and asking questions might give appropriate insight.

DM

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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