On 13 January 2012 14:21, Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]>wrote:
> Further to this, the Basic crawler plugin took some 4 mins to download > dependencies, install and test... > > Seems a lot of overhead for a plugin which is not even mentioned in the > project description. Considering the overall build took some 8 mins > locally. > The Crawler plugin has been added with milestone 0.7.0, the documentation has not yet written. Mic > > ... > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > OK further to my ridiculous question regarding where the module actually > > is, I would like to pose some more relevant thoughts. > > > > A while ago I opened NUTCH-1129 [1], based enitrely on the suggestion > > which was included within the Incubator proposal for a Nutch Any23 > plugin. > > As you know, currently the crawling in the basic-crawler plugin is done > via > > crawler4j, @ Apache we are great believers of eat your own dog food, > > therefore my proposal would be to remove the dependencies on crawler4j > if I > > was building the Nutch implementation using instead Nutch interfaces and > > functionality. This kind of leads on to my question as to > > > > 1) Should the basic-crawler plugin be kept within Any23? My own thoughts > > are that it provides a real nice and easy way to test out Any23 > > functionality, however should 'crawling' functionality be part of a > project > > which describes itself as "a library, a web service and a command line > tool > > that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web > > documents."? > > 2) The knock-on effect of removing this module and porting it directly to > > Nutch would be that to test out Any23 libraries within a crawler you > would > > need a working knowledge of Nutch... this could be putting up barriers to > > adoption... > > 3) I'm assuming that a Nutch plugin would simply use Ivy to pull the > > any23-core library from the Apache repo and use this, I'm thinking of > > deduplicating as much code as possible between projects... Any ideas > > > > Thanks > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1129 > > > > -- > > *Lewis* > > > > > > > -- > *Lewis* > -- Michele Mostarda Senior Software Engineer skype: michele.mostarda twitter: micmos mail: [email protected] site : http://www.michelemostarda.com
