On Sat, 8 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> there -- it's just a matter of scale.  In fact, I'd be perfectly
> happy to be subsumed by Clucene, as long as week keep backward
> compatibilty with ht://Dig.  As you say, the role of ht://Dig
> (spidering and user interface) is complementary to that of Clucene.

  I believe the CLucene developers are more focused on providing a
indexing/searching library that other can build an application with.

  And given everyones time constraints, it makes more sense long-term to
throw in with them and participate.

>
> The big problem is the amount of work, but all of the options are a
> lot of work.  I can really only afford to spend a couple of hours a
> week on ht://Dig.  To be viable, I think we need at least four times

  It will be no trivial amount of work to convert htdig to use CLucene as
the index/search guts.... unless we make the decision that all
configuration options related to the current search/index code are
eligible for removal... we'll keep the ones we can, change the
definitions of some and others will die.

  If we try and be fully backwards compatible with the current subset of
search/index configs... we'll be asking for trouble.

  I'm subscribed to the CLucene list.. it's quite active and motivated...
and they are working on UTF-8 support... which is motivation enough to
consider the switch.

  I do think we should consider releasing 3.2.0 after a bit of
profiling...

Neal Richter
Knowledgebase Developer
RightNow Technologies, Inc.
Customer Service for Every Web Site
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