[farcry-dev] Re: FarCry on Mac

[Geoff Bowers]

The crux of the problem is that the Verity K2 SDK that ships with CFMX 
is quite old.  There are no binaries for MacOSX (or for anything above 
about redhat 7.2 either for that matter).  Whether or not Verity will 
compile to these platforms is irrelevant -- CF comes with no licensing 
for them.  We really have to wait for an update to Verity in the next 
version of CF (assuming it actually contains an update!).

You should be able to reference a remote K2 service from Mac -- but I 
haven't tested it.  That service would also have to build the collection 
-- wherein lies the difficulty.  FarCry cleverly updates all its own 
collection information.

Alternative search engines should be easy enough to integrate -- for 
example Lucene -- its just a matter of motivation.  Daemon doesn't have 
any commercial clients hosting from OSX, so we haven't been able to 
allocate resources to support searching on that platform.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
Bowden, Beth (NIH/NIEHS) wrote:
Would it be difficult to have Farcry on a Mac but point to Verity on a
different box? TIA.
Beth Bowden
-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 6:28 PM
To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: FarCry on Mac

Mike Britton wrote:
I'm in the process of establishing requirements for installation and 
configuration of FarCry.  Is there anyone out there running FarCry on 
the Mac?  What has your experience been like technically?  Are there 
issues with the CFMX Mac application server OR FarCry in the Mac/CF 
environment that come to mind?

CFMX does not support Verity on the Mac -- so you would have to replace 
the current free-text search funstions in FarCry.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

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