Re: [Lxr-general] Using 0.9?

[Malcolm B. <ma...@br...>]

Hi Ronan,

"MCALLISTER,RONAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> I'd love to play with it again, has the codebase improved much since then?

I'd like to think so, yes :-)

It depends what problems you were having in particular.  Java support is
much improved, as is C++.  Speed is up and the output is now CSSed so
easier to change to support house styles.  Various bugs have been
squashed.

> One complication is that I'm running the tools on HP-UX 10.20, so I had to
> do quite a bit of software porting/compiling to get all the tools you are
> used to on Linux work on HP-UX.  I don't think this was the root of the
> problem, rather it seemed to be buggy postgres query code.

Relatively little work has been done on the Postgres code, but several
people are running sites with it with no reported problems.  Note that
the CVS head revision is currently broken for Postgres, patches on
lxr-developer at the moment.

Personally I use and develop with MySQL, so I can vouch that this works
well.  If you have a choice it might be worth using MySQL since it gets
more testing (at least from me).

> Is 0.9 stable enough, or does anyone have any experience with HP-UX and/or
> postgres to know if it's worth a try now?

0.9 is pretty stable - I run two large sites with it, though not on
HP-UX or Postgres.  YMMV as they say.

I'd say give it a whirl if you have the time - even the installation
instructions have been improved.

> Should I give up with HP-UX and wait till I get Linux setup?

Of course you should give up with HP-UX - Linux is the way of the future
:-)  But you don't need to do it now.

Malcolm