Re: [sleuthkit-users] Solr / RegExp Update and Survey
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From: Nanni B. <dig...@gm...> - 2016-12-09 13:02:04
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Option1 for sure! :) 2016-12-09 12:19 GMT+01:00 bolo dev <bol...@gm...>: > Option 1 for a major version number > Option 2 (read-only) could start the road to bloat. > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...> > wrote: > >> I have an update Solr / Elastic / regular expression work and a question >> about backward compatibility. >> >> Update: We’re sticking with Solr and will be breaking text into 32KB >> chunks to use a different regular expression searching approach that gives >> us better results. It is actually faster than before! >> >> Question: How much backward compatibility are people expecting? We have >> three general options: >> - no backward compatibility: You need to have Autopsy 4.2 to open >> existing 4.2 cases. Existing cases are not upgraded. We’d probably need to >> call this release Autopsy 5 to make it clear what can open what. I’m not >> sure there are enough new features to justify such a major version increase. >> - read-only: Autopsy 4.2 cases can be opened in the new Autopsy (let’s >> call it 4.3), but only searched. You can’t add new data sources to it and >> it would have the old regular expression searching. If you need to add Data >> Sources, open the case up in 4.2. >> - fully: Autopsy converts the old schema to the new schema (a time >> intensive process). You could open Autopsy cases originally created with >> 4.2 in 4.3 and add to them. >> >> I’ll bias this thread by saying my preference is the read-only approach. >> It’s the least amount of work to provide some level of backward >> compatibility. Historically, we have always upgraded cases to work with >> new versions of Autopsy. This is just a lot of work to fully upgrade and >> it isn’t clear that there is a lot of value in doing it. >> >> Who would be sad if we did the read-only approach? >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------ >> Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors >> Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. >> With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. >> Training and support from Colfax. >> Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi >> _______________________________________________ >> sleuthkit-users mailing list >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sleuthkit-users >> http://www.sleuthkit.org >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors > Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. > With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. > Training and support from Colfax. > Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi > _______________________________________________ > sleuthkit-users mailing list > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sleuthkit-users > http://www.sleuthkit.org > > -- Dott. Nanni Bassetti http://www.nannibassetti.com CAINE project manager - http://www.caine-live.net |