Great news! What is the state of Lucene++? Is it stable? Ahmed
2011/3/17, Ben van Klinken <bvanklin...@gmail.com>: > Dear CLuceners > > It's been a very long time since I've done anything on CLucene, and I > hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes if I jump in here now. I just > wanted to keep you up with a few things I've been doing lately. > > 1. I've done some work on CLucene and released it as a stable version. > It's basically the master branch that everyone has been working on, > plus a whole lot of patches: > * lots of platform fixes. > - Running on suse's compile farm: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=clucene-core&project=home%3Austramooner > - Packaged on Ubuntu's compile farm: > https://launchpad.net/~ustramooner/+archive/ppa/+packages > * compiles with clang++ > * fixed various deadlocks and memory leaks > * lots of pedantic warning fixes > > Please send me comments on how that branch is for you. I'm fairly > confident in so far as that the tests pass on a whole lot of platforms > which were failing earlier. But still... :) > > 2. I've been working on a new version of CLucene with Alan Wright. > This new version is called Lucene++, is compatible with Java Lucene > 3.0.3 and is heavily built with boost (full use of shared_ptr, and a > lot of other areas), and thus avoids many of the problems that users > have with memory handling and bugs relating to threading, etc. For a > number of reasons, I've decided not to try and merge the two projects. > For one, I think that CLucene still has a place (in fact I'm also > doing some work on CLucene - read below): namely for projects who > don't want or can't handle the overhead that Lucene++'s heavy use of > boost creates - such as on mobiles. > - see http://www.github.com/ustramooner/LucenePlusPlus > 1a. I've created python bindings around Lucene++ > - see http://www.github.com/ustramooner/python-lucenepp > > 4. I've created some bindings around Strigi (a desktop search engine > on kde). I've wrapped the libstreams aspect of the engine, which > exposes meta data extraction in a stream way (i.e. you can extract > meta data from files deep in an archive without extracting each file. > > I'm hoping that between these two bindings (python-lucene++ and > python-streamanalyzer) a really innovative python based desktop search > engine can be created. I believe that 90% of the hard work and > performance of a desktop search engine is tied up in the areas that > these libraries do best. I really believe desktop search has become > stale and we REALLY lack something good still (I'm still using grep > and locate!!!!). Perhaps these libraries will allow someone who isn't > caught up in the nitty grity of implementing meta extraction and > indexing to come in and blow us all away... > - see http://www.github.com/ustramooner/python-streamanalyzer > > > Anyway, that's been my busy week, and no I'm off to Moreton Island to > do some snorkelling :) > > Cheers > Ben > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > CLucene-developers mailing list > CLucene-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clucene-developers > -- Envoyé avec mon mobile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ CLucene-developers mailing list CLucene-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clucene-developers
