[jira] [Created] (LUCENE-5859) add no-Version parameter to Analyzers/QueryParser

["Robert Muir (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Robert Muir created LUCENE-5859:
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             Summary: add no-Version parameter to Analyzers/QueryParser
                 Key: LUCENE-5859
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5859
             Project: Lucene - Core
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Robert Muir


This has always been a mess: analyzers are easy enough to make on your own, we don't need to "take responsibility" for the users analysis chain for 2 major releases.

The code maintenance is horrible here.

This creates a huge usability issue too, and as seen from numerous mailing list issues, users don't even understand how this versioning works anyway.

I'm sure someone will whine if i try to remove these constants, but we can at least make no-arg ctors forwarding to VERSION_CURRENT so that people who don't care about back compat (e.g. just prototyping) don't have to deal with the horribly complex versioning system.

If you want to make the argument that doing this is "trappy" (i heard this before), i think thats bogus, and ill counter by trying to remove them. Either way, I'm personally not going to add any of this kind of back compat logic myself ever again.



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