On Dec 27, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Michael Maclean wrote:

> Hi,
> Since LXR hasn't been updating since the shift to SVN, I've been 
> investigating bringing it back. Today, though, I came across OpenGrok which 
> appears to be a far more modern implementation of the same thing, using 
> Lucene as the back end. I've set up a test installation of it at 
> http://php-og.mgdm.net if anyone is interested in playing with it.
> 
> Advantages seem to be:
> * It's really quite fast
> * It has a nicer UI, in my opinion
> * It's not too hard to set up
> * It handles multiple branches *relatively* well
> * It does incremental indexing, which I don't think LXR does
> 
> It has the potential disadvantage that it requires Tomcat, which means 
> running another web server somewhere, but I'm quite willing to volunteer to 
> look after it if we can find a php.net machine to put it on at some point. 
> For now, the test install is updating each branch from SVN and reindexing 
> once every two hours.
> 
> Any comments?

Looks great, and much nicer. If you feel pb11[1] could handle it, then we could 
dedicate this box to OpenGrok (as grok.php.net?).

Regards,
Philip

[1] http://wiki.php.net/systems/pb11


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