On 2 March 2010 09:57, Nicole Engard <neng...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Galen Charlton <gmcha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In a perfect world, I agree that it would be best to settle on one >> search engine and eliminate an installation option, but I don't think >> that we'll ever get there; there will always be another external >> engine that is newer/faster/shinier/better-supported than whatever >> Koha uses at the time. It's also important to identify the source of >> the problem - in the case of phrase searching, Zebra is perfectly >> capable of doing it, but there are a number of flaws in C4::Search's >> notion of query parsing that stand in the way and that would still >> apply if we ripped out Zebra and replaced it with Solr. >> >> Refactoring C4::Search in 3.4 will get us most of the way, and doing >> so with the idea of supporting Solr would keep us honest as we >> redesign the API. However, I would be quite content if the end result >> for 3.4 was simply a cleaner front end to Zebra. > > > Correct me if I'm wrong- but I've been told that Zebra is the reason > the facets work the way they do - and there are issues there as well. > I don't find the only issue with Zebra to be phrase searching, but > also boolean searches, the ordering of the facets, the inability to > show the number of hits next to facets or order them in alpha order > ... and maybe even more I'm forgetting now. > > But I do agree that there will be problems no matter what - or maybe > not problems but challenges - this is the nature of technology. > You are wrong :)
The problems are with how we are using Zebra, (which if we want to blame someone other than who wrote C4::Search we could blame on the zebra docs I guess) I have no intention of tossing Zebra out and replacing it totally with Solr, but being able to support both (and more potentially like xapian) is a major goal of the rewrite of C4::Search. Zebra is sometimes hard to figure out, but it is fast, and it pretty much just works Chris _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
