Hi, Sorry for the long delay.
On lun., 18 mars 2024 at 16:05, Christina O'Donnell <c...@mutix.org> wrote: >> 2: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39258 > As I said above, [2] is a fairly long thread, but I think I get the > general idea. It seems that Xapian was implemented but didn't have the > desired speedup. Am I getting the right impression there? Not really. From my memories, the first blocker for implementing search with Xapian was adding Xapian as dependency of Guix. This addition would be a bad idea, IMHO. However… At the time of discussing Xapian-based “guix search”, GUIX_EXTENSIONS_PATH was at its infancy. Therefore, it was not really on the table. … Xapian-based “package search” appears to me an option if it is turned into a Guix extension. This way, adding Xapian as dependency is not for all but only for those who want more features. :-) I have on my TODO list to resume the work: 1. Benchmark Xapian-based search 2. Benchmark Xapian index building Then depending on that, it draws the directions. Cheers, simon
