On 26 Okt, 19:33, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ferret is basically a Lucene clone, originally written in Ruby but > with the intensive parts later rewritten in C for speed since the Ruby > version was too slow. There was something similar done in Python > (PyLucene, I think) that was also pretty slow.
You're thinking of Lupy, whose authors/supporters then seemed to switch to Xapian: http://www.divmod.org/projects/lupy Meanwhile, PyLucene doesn't seem particularly slow to me. Provided you can build the software (it requires gcj), it seems to work rapidly and reliably - the only problem I've ever had was related to a threading bug in Python 2.3 which was subsequently fixed by the Python core developers. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
