[cgi-wiki-dev] Deprecating Search::InvertedIndex (was Re: Recent Changes addition - finding new pages)

Kake L Pugh kake at earth.li
Mon May 12 17:21:55 BST 2008


On Sun 11 May 2008, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> I asked a while ago about discontinuing support for
> Search::InvertedIndex - it has largely been superceded by Plucene (and
> other modules), and I don't have it installed on my development
> platform so it won't generally speaking be well-looked after.
> 
> Would marking it deprecated in the next release upset anyone, with a
> view to removing it in a couple of releases time?

I'm not sure about this.  Personally I'm happy to see it go, but I'm
worried that it means yet another obstacle to upgrading.  There are a
lot of abandoned and semi-abandoned guides out there, and I'm not sure
how to bring them back into the fold.

Kake




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