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.helli...@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 > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
