Re: [WebMacro-user] Re: Wiki Source Code Update; Please Confirm

[Mark C. <mcr...@ma...>]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:09:22 -0700, Brian Goetz wrote:

> OK, Xapian is better, but is there anything _wrong_ with Lucene?  The
> volume of data we're talking about is terrically small by search
> standards.  Wouldn't having a 100% Java solution be more desirable
> than something with a slightly faster search?  

I have to agree that a 100% Java solution is desirable.  Although my wiki is down at the moment due to a hardware issue, it does run on OS/2, so I would probably be screwed if you changed Xapian... it doesn't seem to have been ported to OS/2 and I don't have a lot of confidence in autoconf on OS/2.

>>> I am planning on ripping out the Lucene full-text indexing stuff and 
>>> replacing it with Xapian (http://www.xapian.org/).  Xapian is a C++ 
>>> library for fulltext indexing that is f*cking awesome.  It's fast and 
>>> simple.  I've contributed a JNI wrapper for it so it can be used from 
>>> Java, and they've just recently released a new version which includes 
>>> the JNI wrapper.  Sometime soon I'll be updating Wiki too. 

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