Re: [Zope-dev] What catalog/index to use ...

2002-11-08 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
Depends on your needs. ZCTextIndex is very easy to use and supports relevance ranking, TextIndexNG is supposed to be some kind of eier-legende-wollmilch-sau. Compare the features and make your choice. -aj isn't TextIndexNG much better with international character encodings and that stuff?

Re: [Zope-dev] What catalog/index to use ...

2002-11-08 Thread Casey Duncan
ZCTextIndex is to become the full replacement for old TextIndex. There are a couple of outstanding patches for making the ZCTextIndex splitter, etc. locale friendly. Whether those solve your problem I don't know. We are happy to improve ZCTextIndex for international use, however we at Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] What catalog/index to use ...

2002-11-08 Thread Casey Duncan
In the original design of ZCTextIndex we (PythonLabs mostly) considered stemming and found that it has been found to have dubious value in many information theorists views (The fact that Google does no stemming was also a factor in the decision). So we decided to leave it out entirely.

[Zope-dev] What catalog/index to use ...

2002-11-07 Thread Joachim Werner
Hi! Currently there are at least three options for doing full text indexing with ZCatalog: - good old TextIndex - ZCTextIndex - TextIndexNG TextIndex basically works fine for me and handles German umlauts well (if you use the right locale settings in the Zope start skript), but ZCTextIndex is

Re: [Zope-dev] What catalog/index to use ...

2002-11-07 Thread Andreas Jung
--On Freitag, 8. November 2002 01:44 +0100 Joachim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the plans for Zope 2.6.x/2.7? Will ZCTextIndex be replaced by TextIndexNG? No, they will coexist. ZCTextIndex is maintained by Zope Corp, TextIndexNG is maintained by myself. Does it make sense