How come this new version is bundled with rails and why is there no .war output format?

I wanted a simple drop in replacement for my current war :(

On 4/8/11 1:27 PM, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
On 4/8/11 9:55 PM, Andy wrote:

--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Andrzej Bialecki<a...@getopt.org>  wrote:


:) If you don't need the new functionality in 4.x, you don't
need the performance improvements,

What performance improvements does 4.x have over 3.1?

Ah... well, many - take a look at the CHANGES.txt.


reindexing cycles are long (indexes tend to stay around)
then 3.1 is a safer bet. If you need a dozen or so new
exciting features (e.g. results grouping) or top
performance, or if you need LucidWorks with Click and other
goodies, then use 4.x and be prepared for an occasional full
reindex.

So using 4.x would require occasional full reindex but using 3.1 would not? Could you explain? I thought 4.x comes with NRT indexing. So why is full reindex necessary?

Well, so long as you don't want to upgrade then of course, index format is stable and you can manage it incrementally. But in case of an upgrade, because in 4.x index format is not stable - if you upgrade to a newer Lucene / LucidWorks of 4.x vintage then it may be the case that even though indexes before and after upgrade are of 4.x vintage they are still incompatible.

At some point there may be tools to transparently convert indexes from one 4.x to another 4.x format, but they are not there yet.

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