On Nov 8, 2012, at 4:41, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 08/11/2012 02:03, Phil Steitz a écrit : > >> IIUC, Cocoon (and others?) also need this, so it makes sense for it >> to be a component on its own and - assuming it stays small - in >> Commons. I have not looked carefully at the code, but it does not >> look so much like "a crawler" to me as a framework for managing >> things like crawlers. > > I think it would be better for the project to find a home where the > other developers have an expertise in the same domain. > > Commons is the perfect home for components that are not related to the > main concern of many other projects (logging, configuration, > pooling...). But in this case there is a project, Nutch, whose core > functionality is exactly the goal of the component.
Exactly. The next question is: does Nutch already have something similar to Droids or is Nutch strictly for web crawling. If only for web, Nutch might be the perfect home. Gary. > > That why I think this solution should be preferred. Cocoon could then > have a dependency on a nutch-crawling component. > > Emmanuel Bourg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
