[LUCENE-1728] Move SmartChineseAnalyzer & resources to own contrib project

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: modules/analysis
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Simon Willnauer
• Reporter: Simon Willnauer
• Created: 01/Jul/09 17:38
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:03
• Resolved: 23/Jul/09 17:12

Description

SmartChineseAnalyzer depends on a large dictionary that causes the analyzer jar to grow up to 3MB. The dictionary is quite big compared to all the other resouces / class files contained in that jar.
Having a separate analyzer-cn contrib project enables footprint-sensitive users (e.g. using lucene on a mobile phone) to include analyzer.jar without getting into trouble with disk space.

Moving SmartChineseAnalyzer to a separate project could also include a small refactoring as Robert mentioned in LUCENE-1722 several classes should be package protected, members and classes could be final, commented syserr and logging code should be removed etc.

I set this issue target to 2.9 - if we can not make it until then feel free to move it to 3.0