Greg Kuperberg wrote:
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.
We've found PyLucene works great but compiling etc is harder for all the
reasons mentioned above - the current trade off is live with that or
improve it as others have said...
Andi's amazing with his constant cheerfulness on the mailing list - and
of course the development he does which is fairly mind-boggling.
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
You may want to check out solr:
http://incubator.apache.org/solr/
This is a server that basically seems to wrap Lucene and serve queries
using HTTP etc - and it seems to have Python bindings...
Would be interested to hear what you find out if you try it
David
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