Re: [Lxr-dev] support only swish-e?

[Dave B. <da...@br...>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Malcolm Box wrote:

> Dave Brondsema wrote:
>
> | Would it be ok to support only swish-e and not glimpse?  This would
> | make LXR code easier to maintain and would allow us to take
> | advantage of some features (like searching on content and filepath
> | together).
> |
> | swish-e runs on all platforms that glimpse does, and has no
> | restrictions on its use, so I don't think this would be a problem
> | for LXR users to install.
>
> My take is that this will be fine, so long as swish-e is really ready
> for production use.  Last time I looked it was definitely in a beta
> state, and I ran into problems with it on large codebases (600MB
> plus).  So I'd like to see some evidence that it can handle that sort
> of load before we remove glimpse support.
>
> If you wanted to add the additional features conditionally on swish-e
> presence then that would be totally fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malcolm

The codebase at our company is 700+MB and almost 4 million lines of code.
swish-e is runs fine on it.

I'll add the swish-e features and keep glimpse support too.

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