Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The installation/deployment process is more complicated than necessary. The user needs to downloads two deprecated solr configuration files currency.xml and elevate.xml while those files are not used by more recent versions of solr (at least not in the default schemas).
build_solr_schema uses templates to generate the output files. Haystack provides default templates for schema.xml and solrconfig.xml that are solr 6.5 compatible using some sensible defaults. If you would like to provide your own template, you will need to place it in search_configuration/ inside a directory specified by your app's template directories settings.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The installation/deployment process is more complicated than necessary. The user needs to downloads two deprecated solr configuration files currency.xml and elevate.xml while those files are not used by more recent versions of solr (at least not in the default schemas).
Describe the solution requested
Take recent versions of schema.xml and solrconfig.xml and create haystack templates based on them. See https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/management_commands.html?highlight=build_solr_schema#build-solr-schema