I've been using Ferret in a project still under development, and it works pretty well. As far as I can tell, the project is dying, if not already dead. David Balmain is still the only listed developer, and he seems to have moved on to other things. However, since the software is still meeting my project's needs, I am not terribly bothered by that. I suppose that eventually (in a few years?) something will change enough that Ferret will stop working, and then we'll have to find something else.
If you can find an alternative that has active development, I would recommend you go with that. (And if you find one, please post about it.) But, if you can't, Ferret will probably be good enough for a while. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Fernando Parisotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new on the list, and glad to participate. > I would like to make some questions about the ferret project... > - Is the http://ferret.davebalmain.com/ official page of the project? (I'm > always getting 502 Bad Gateway) > - Where I can find the road map of the project? > - In the http://rubyforge.org/projects/ferret/ I see the last realize was in > November 28, 2007, that is true? > - Is ferret discontinued? > > Please don't take this questions as offensive, I really like to know about > how ferret is reliable for a long life product. > Here on my company we are planning to make a big product with a indexing > engine, I would like to know if the ferret is "alive". > Thanks for the answers! > > -- > Atenciosamente - Best regards, > > Fernando Luiz Parisotto > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > -- Paul Lynch Aquilent, Inc. National Library of Medicine (Contractor) _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
