[Lxr-dev] [ lxr-Feature Requests-433936 ] Remove dependance on glimpse

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Feature Requests item #433936, was opened at 2001-06-17 08:54
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Category: General
Group: Next Release
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Malcolm Box (mbox)
Assigned to: Arne Georg Gleditsch (argggh)
Summary: Remove dependance on glimpse

Initial Comment:
The current free text search interface relies on the
glimpse package, which is not Free software.  Thus we
should try to move to a free work-alike.

Suggestions (from Neil Slater):

I know mngosearch has been suggested before now:

http://search.mnogo.ru/

...as has htdig:

http://www.htdig.org/

However, whilst trying to locate the mngo URL, I
chanced across the
following page which also lists a number of other free
search/indexing
engines:

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SearchAttachments


Note that there is slightly more to this work than just
ripping out glimpse, although that would be a start. 
The current code assumes that the files to be indexed
are stored in a plain directory tree, and therefore
will not work with the CVS or other File backend.  This
would really need to be fixed.

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