> What do we do about 3.2?  My vote is to call it 'final', update the
> website and move forward.  I could do this, and have posted this thought
> in the past.. no consensus emerged and I have no desire to be
> heavy-handed.

+1

> After having looked at many commercial implementation of search engines
> over the past few years and following Nutch a bit.. I am still convinced
> that HtDig has plenty of legs.

I know what you mean. Every time I look at Nutch I decide
to stick with htdig 3.1.6 a little longer. However, UTF-8 support
is getting super critical and some time in 2006 I'm going to have
to bite the bullet and do something.

> My thought process for 4.0 is to get the htdig developers to concentrate
> on building an application for web-servers rather than trying to do it all
> and maintain the inverted index code... the Lucene community has already
> cracked that nut.

Neal, are you tracking the Java Lucene dev lists? There's
some recent discussion with respect to index interoperability
that may be relevant.

-Jeff


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