On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Robert Young wrote: > I have just checked out the trunk of this project and notice that there > doesn't seem to really be anything there. Just a basic directory structure > and few .charm files. So, my question is, is this project alive?
Yes, absolutely. In fact, I've just taken a job that involves working on the Lucy core. (I'm in the middle of moving house to be at this job, so I won't be able to follow up on this message for a while.) There isn't much in trunk because I implemented most of the design Dave Balmain and I laid out a while back within KinoSearch, which, since it wasn't a brand new project, had a userbase. Right now, Nathan Kurz and I are working on the design for the file format. That will also go into KS first. The plan is to have the next release of KS serve as a draft for Lucy. Barring unexpected developments, KS will be declared stable and will go into maintenance mode reasonably quickly after release. That's when I expect to start making a lot more commits to Lucy, as it will become (for me) the devel branch. > If not, is there another c library that provides fulltext search that you > can recommend? Swish. For C++, there's CLucene and Xapian. Marvin Humphrey http://www.rectangular.com/
