Re: Fixing search.debian.org
Hello Jeff,
On Mon, 14.08.2006 at 22:40:32 -0700, Jeff Breidenbach <breidenbach@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xapian is a very fast library and supports advanced query syntax. Its
> corresponding search application Omega is easy to customize and
> deploy. Limitations include lack of support for Chinese/Japanese/Korean,
> and summary results only show the top of the result page instead of
> the relevant portion.
iow, if this support for foreign characters would be fixed and the
"show relevant portion" too, this might be "the" way to go, unless
> Lucene is a very fast library and has significantly more mindshare
> than Xapian.
we can agree to move to Java (I don't feel overly comfortable with it
right now), right?
> polished as Omega. Nutch is a Java servlet application not currently
> packaged for Debian.
So is Xapian to the best of my knowledge.
> Lucene has a Java heritage but has ports to
> various languages.
Well, I should probably look again, then.
> I feel Xapian and Lucene are the two leading Free Software search
> libraries [2] and both could be viable for Debian provided
> sufficient elbow grease is also applied.
This last phrase seems to describe *the* biggest general problem to me.
I have an idea about how to fix it, though. ;-)
> my personal opinion only and do not represent the positions of any
> organization that I am affiliated with.
I'm also affiliated with none of these.
Best,
--Toni++
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