4) According to the PyLucene author, converting Java Lucene to a
native library with gcj, then calling that library from a C
program is hopelessly hairy and not recommended. Too bad.
5) To my eye, Nutch does not look particularly rich in features or
configurability compared to HtDig.
As I see it, the primary reason that Nutch is somewhat unattractive to the
average HtDig user is that they must know how to configure Nutch to run as
Tomcat service, or know how to tweak the build system to build as a
standalone server. Either is easy for a more novice user given their
