Re: More Gaim Alias Fixes

["Fredrik Hedberg" <fredrik hedberg gmail com>]

Hey!

> I believe the reason it was done at query-time is because the alias can
> be changed by the user at any point, and it's stored only in the
> buddy-list (and not in the index), and in the user interface you want to
> display the current alias, not what it was when it was indexed.
>
> Of course, if it didn't work then there's another issue here. :)  But I
> don't think that indexing the alias is the right thing to do.

Agree.

The reason why we didn't add this on indexing-time was exactly due to
the fact that the alias might change. Considering that Lucene isn't
exactly a relational database, it's kind of hard to solve this issue
elegantly. Luckily, we have a Summer of Code warrior working
tirelessly 24/7 on problems like this - Max.

> I believe either Fredrik or Lukas wrote that code.  You might want to
> check in with them about it.

Guilty as charged. However, it seems to work flawlessly here (with
revision 1.53, before any changes).

Love,

      Fredrik