It hasn't had a release for a few years either but I've successfully used Plucene to build a search engine for inhouse mailing lists.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plucene/ -J -- On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:46:42PM +0100, Dermot wrote: > Hi, > > This is a slighty OT query. > > I am looking for a text search engine that has a Perl interface. I > have found a few, Lucene, OpenFTS and Swish-E. OpenFTS hasn't had a > release of the last 3 years. That makes me nervous about using it. > Lucene is java based. I have zero java experience but there is Perl > Module into a 'C++ port API of Lucene'. There is also a thread on > perlmonks about the performance penalty of tying Perl to Java. I am a > bit surprised that the there isn't a more native Perl text search > engine given Perl's agility with text strings. > > Could anyone recommend any of the above or suggest an alternative? > Tia, > Dp. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
