Can someone of you please comment on the viability of Xapian, or maybe Lucene?
Xapian is a very fast library and supports advanced query syntax. Its corresponding search application Omega is easy to customize and deploy. Limitations include lack of support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean, and summary results only show the top of the result page instead of the relevant portion. Xapian has a C++ heritage, but includes bindings for several languages. Here is an example of a Xapian query running against a copy of the debian-user mailing list archive. [1] Lucene is a very fast library and has significantly more mindshare than Xapian. Its corresponding search application, Nutch, is not as polished as Omega. Nutch is a Java servlet application not currently packaged for Debian. Lucene has a Java heritage but has ports to various languages. I feel Xapian and Lucene are the two leading Free Software search libraries [2] and both could be viable for Debian provided sufficient elbow grease is also applied. These comments reflect my personal opinion only and do not represent the positions of any organization that I am affiliated with. Jeff Breidenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/omega/omega?P=yogurt&[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools-opensource.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
