> On 31/08/2021 13:59 Tom Hendrikx <t...@whyscream.net> wrote: > > > On 31-08-2021 12:01, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > >> On 31/08/2021 10:56 Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Am Dienstag, dem 31.08.2021 um 10:33 +0300 schrieb Aki Tuomi: > >>> > >>>> On 31/08/2021 00:11 Joan Moreau <j...@grosjo.net> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hi > >>>> There seems to be 2 plugins doing the same thins > >>>> - https://github.com/slusarz/dovecot-fts-flatcurve/ > >>>> - https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ (mine) > >>>> Both are in the doc of dovecot > >>>> https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/ > >>>> > >>>> I am currently working hard to push it to RPM package, and plugin > >>>> is already approved by ArchLinux and Debian > >>>> > >>>> Isn't there double work here ? > >>>> Thanks > >>>> JM > >>> > >>> If you look closer, you can see they are not exactly duplicates. > >>> Flatcurve works differently than your plugin. > >>> > >>> Aki > >> > >> Is there somewhere a direct comparison of them? > >> I currenty use fts-xapian from Joan without problems. > >> But what would be the advantages of fts-flatcurve over fts-xapian? > > > > fts_flatcurve does only full word searching, although you can use > > fts_filters and fts_tokenizers settings to affect stemming and other > > matching to make it work with plurals and such. > > > > Both plugins have their merits. > > I still think it's weird to see that Open-Xchange starts a FTS Xapian > plugin with mostly the same basic functionality that is already > available in an existing plugin maintained by someone in the community > Especially if that happens without any (apparent) communication with the > existing plugin developer to find out whether fixing the issues that > slusarz/Open-Xchange seem to have with the existing plugin, can be fixed. > > Combining forces just seems a better way to spend scarce development > resources than building something similar (but different) without any > communication. > > (Note: I don't use any of these plugins). > > My 2 cents, > > Tom
Just for clarity, Open-Xchange has not written any xapian plugin whatsoever. Aki
