Lucene Snowball README file

This project provides pre-compiled version of the Snowball stemmers
based on revision 500 of the Tartarus Snowball repository,
together with classes integrating them with the Lucene search engine.


IMPORTANT NOTICE ON BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY!

An index created using the Snowball module in Lucene 2.3.2 and below
might not be compatible with the Snowball module in Lucene 2.4 or greater.

For more information about this issue see:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1142


For more information on Snowball, see:
  http://snowball.tartarus.org/