Hi, Lucy is certainly an interesting project. There is a great advantage of having a C language lucene which doesn't conform as closely to the java lucene api (as CLucene does). I imagine there are many optimisations available. But CLucene does offer something to developers, among other things: a fairly complete port (most features are implemented) which is high-performance, portable, extensible, and not too hard to learn (especially if you've already done some work with java lucene already). There are also quite a lot of projects using it now, which must means something :)
cheers, ben On 15/10/06, Marvin Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 15, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: > perhaps this can dove-tail with the Lucy incubation? Lucy is all new code, so the project isn't actually passing through the incubator. We're looking at what Lucene did, what Ferret (Ruby/ C, Dave Balmain) did, and what KinoSearch (Perl/C, myself) did, cherry-picking the best bits, and synthesizing something new. I don't really see how that process can be reconciled with the concept of importing CLucene (C++) en toto. I imagine Ben would bring a lot to Lucy, though, should he choose to start contributing. (Same for other CLucene authors; I'm only familiar with Ben.) Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/
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