Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-27 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 17, 7:20 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still remember Gadfly fondly. What a great piece of software Gadfly is ... congrats on that Aaron. For me it was one of the first Python packages that truly stood out and made me want to learn Python. i. -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-26 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 17, 7:20 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (see the graphic at the bottom of http://nucular.sourceforge.net) > > It's a shame the name obscures rather than enlightens. Your stuff is > usually pretty good - I still remember Gadfly fondly. Sorry you fe

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 8, 7:00 pm, "Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ANNOUNCE: >>> NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing >> Does "NUCULAR" stand for anything? The (a

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-15 Thread Terry Reedy
| > | > http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsole... Unclipped link is http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/20/conventional_hard_drive_obsoletism/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-15 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 12, 2:01 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's reasonable speed, but is that just to do the set intersections > and return the size of the result set, or does it retrieve the actual > result set? It only showed 20 results on a page. I notice

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/gut.py/go?FREETEXT=w > (w for "web") we get 6294 entries which takes about 500ms on > a cold index and about 150ms on a warm index. This is on a very > active shared hosting machine. That's reasonable speed, but is that just to do the set

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread aaron . watters
regarding http://nucular.sourceforge.net On Oct 11, 12:32 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > > How many items did each query return? When I refer to large result > sets, I mean you often get queries that return 10k items or more (a > pretty small number: typing "python" into googl

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > ...but it looks a little more akin to Solr than to Lucene. ... > > I'm not sure but I think nucular has aspects of both since > it implements both the search engine itself and also provides > XML and HTTP interfaces That sounds reasonable. > As a test I built an in

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 11, 3:30 am, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As for [ http://nucular.sourceforge.net ] > itself, I've only had a chance to glance at the > site... Thanks for taking a look. I hope you don't mind if I disagree with a numb

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Rubin
"Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the case of "nucular", it's a mispronunciation that has been widely > ridiculed all over the world. There are people (including myself) who so > associate it as an object of ridicule that it's an immediate turn-off. It gave me a chuckle, si

RE: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Grant Edwards >> >> Anyway, I apologize for my attempt at humor, since it appears >> to have somehow offended. > > Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of > software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, > I'l

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread George Sakkis
On Oct 10, 11:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of > software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, > I'll use it. Even if its called 'bouncingBetty'. Or 'BeautifulSoup' for that matter ;-) George -- htt

RE: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
> From: Grant Edwards > > Anyway, I apologize for my attempt at humor, since it appears > to have somehow offended. Why apologize? If someone doesn't like the name given to a piece of software by its author(s), screw them. If I find the software useful, I'll use it. Even if its called 'bounci

Re: Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-09, Bill Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/9/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> ps. there is a python proje

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 10, 6:05 am, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9 Okt, 22:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...tell us how the [ http://nucular.sourceforge.net ] > software compares to stuff like Lucene or Xapian... I wish I could, honestly. I've looked briefly into trying to put together some sort

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Richie Hindle
[Paul] > tell us how the software compares to stuff like Lucene or Xapian. +1 -- Richie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-10 Thread Paul Boddie
On 9 Okt, 22:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well I'd like people to use the software because they think > it's good. If the name is a problem it's probably only the > first of many reasons they won't want to use it or will not > like it because it doesn't match their preconceptions. Please igno

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 9, 3:35 pm, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > why would it be late? is the future of you own work not worth the time > it takes to rename it? Compared to all the other work it took ... it > is just a mere inconvenience. >From a sourceforge perspective I think it's more than in in

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 9, 9:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a great tradition of tounge-in-cheek package names, like > "Cold fusion", for example. Cold Fusion is a super cool name. Nobody will every think of it as representing something odd or silly. > too late now. sorry again, why would it be late? is the

Fwd: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Bill Hamilton
On 10/9/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> ps. there is a python project named "The Devil Framework", I cringe > >>> every time I he

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-10-09, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> ps. there is a python project named "The Devil Framework", I cringe >>> every time I hear about it.Nucularis not as bad, but it is close. >> >> Aw sh

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Robin Becker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ps. there is a python project named "The Devil Framework", I cringe >> every time I hear about it.Nucularis not as bad, but it is close. > > Aw shucks. I thought it was funny. Can't I make fun of > politici

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:46:34 +, Istvan Albert wrote: > On Oct 9, 7:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> No, it doesn't stand for anything. > > It also reminds me of someone we all know, and I wish it didn't. > > As the latin proverb says "Nomen est omen". Calling your package > "docindexer"

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 9, 8:46 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ps. there is a python project named "The Devil Framework", I cringe > every time I hear about it.Nucularis not as bad, but it is close. Aw shucks. I thought it was funny. Can't I make fun of politicians in my open source projects? Be

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 9, 7:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, it doesn't stand for anything. It also reminds me of someone we all know, and I wish it didn't. As the latin proverb says "Nomen est omen". Calling your package "docindexer" would draw a lot more people. It is hard to justify to a third party tha

Re: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread aaron . watters
On Oct 8, 7:00 pm, "Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ANNOUNCE: > > NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing > > Does "NUCULAR" stand for anything? The (apparent) misspelling of > "nuclear&qu

RE: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-09 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ANNOUNCE: > NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing Does "NUCULAR" stand for anything? The (apparent) misspelling of "nuclear" has already turned me off wanting to find out more about it. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing

2007-10-08 Thread aaron . watters
ANNOUNCE: NUCULAR fielded text searchable indexing Nucular is a system for creating disk based full text indices for fielded data. It can be accessed via a Python API or via a suite of command line interfaces. Nucular is intended to help store and retrieve searchable information in a manner