[LUCENE-8369] Remove the spatial module as it is obsolete

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Resolved
• Component/s: modules/spatial
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 25/Jun/18 18:31
• Updated: 17/Jan/20 13:30
• Resolved: 16/Jan/20 17:39

Description

The "spatial" module is at this juncture nearly empty with only a couple utilities that aren't used by anything in the entire codebase – GeoRelationUtils, and MortonEncoder. Perhaps it should have been removed earlier in LUCENE-7664 which was the removal of GeoPointField which was essentially why the module existed. Better late than never.

Issue Links

• is related to: YETUS-14 test-patch should handle module movement
• is related to: LUCENE-8621 Move LatLonShape and XYShape out of sandbox
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1173