Hello Jeff,
On Mon, 14.08.2006 at 22:40:32 -0700, Jeff Breidenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xapian is a very fast library and supports advanced query syntax. Its > corresponding search application Omega is easy to customize and > deploy. Limitations include lack of support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean, > and summary results only show the top of the result page instead of > the relevant portion. iow, if this support for foreign characters would be fixed and the "show relevant portion" too, this might be "the" way to go, unless > Lucene is a very fast library and has significantly more mindshare > than Xapian. we can agree to move to Java (I don't feel overly comfortable with it right now), right? > polished as Omega. Nutch is a Java servlet application not currently > packaged for Debian. So is Xapian to the best of my knowledge. > Lucene has a Java heritage but has ports to > various languages. Well, I should probably look again, then. > I feel Xapian and Lucene are the two leading Free Software search > libraries [2] and both could be viable for Debian provided > sufficient elbow grease is also applied. This last phrase seems to describe *the* biggest general problem to me. I have an idea about how to fix it, though. ;-) > my personal opinion only and do not represent the positions of any > organization that I am affiliated with. I'm also affiliated with none of these. Best, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
