On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > : I guess my main point is, we shouldn't decide a priori that using the > : API means you can no longer hand edit. > > and my point is we should build a feature where solr has the ability to > read/write some piece of information, we should start with the asumption > that it's OK for us to decide that a priori, and not walk into things > assuming we have to support a lot of much more complicated uses cases. if > at some point during the implementation we find that supporting a more lax > "it's ok, you can edit this by hand" approach won't be a burden, then so > be it -- we can relax that a priori assertion.
I guess I like a more breadth-first method (or at least that's what it feels like to me). You keep both options in mind as you proceed, and don't start off a hard assertion either way. It would be nice to support editing by hand... but if it becomes too burdensome, c'est la vie. If the persistence format we're going to use is nicely human readable, then I'm good. We can disagree on philosophies, but I'm not sure that it amounts to much in the way of concrete differences at this point. What concerned me was talk of starting to treat this as more of a black box. -Yonik http://lucidworks.com
