On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:11:56PM -0600, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
> > If PyLucene had a wiki, that would give it a better chance to
> > evolve into good documentation.
> probably, wiki's are useful, but you also have to combat wiki spam, and it
> takes time to organize them usefully, their not a magic pancea.
These are fair concerns. I guess my real suggestion is to somehow have
documentation in HTML, and not just stashed in a README file. Even
if it were just an old-fashioned web page, placed both in the
package and on the site, it would be an improvement.
But if it were a wiki, you could try to protect it with registration
and captchas. I would suppose that some of the wiki software has
those features.
> if you just want something easy to install there is also xapian.
Maybe, although I would also have to rewrite my search module.
I picked Lucene because it looked like the open source leader.
I just did some Google searches to compare alternatives:
Lucene - 8 million pages
Xapian - 380 thousand pages
PyLucene - 105 thousand pages
These numbers do not encourage me to switch from Lucene to Xapian.
On the other hand, I am not parting with Python, and Xapian does at
least Google more than PyLucene.
Anyway, I am really sorry if this sounds lame and unhelpful. My project
is invested in PyLucene, but there are continuing issues with installation
and documentation. I just don't have the preparation to solve these
problems myself. I am at the other end of it; I would benefit the most
from improvements in these two areas.
Certainly I do not need any new features. As I said, the Lucene API seems
overwritten to me. I use as little of the API as I can get away with.
About the only missing feature in Lucene itself that would be useful is
a server mode, like MySQL has -- I don't know if Lucene 2.0 does that.
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