I think a demonstration of the directory structure a new user will end up with will be more clear:
/var/www/mediawiki/code/extensions/ezmwlucene/client/extensions/EzMwLucene Of course I made the extensionsezmwlucene directory after I silently cursed to myself when I realized you had made the directory structure flat. It's not as bad as when a complicated software distribution does it, though. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks aside, it is such a PITA when developers choose to package tarballs > the way you have. After opening tens of thousands of tarballs I can safely > say that the "standard" way of doing it is to have a directory called > ezmwlucene_1.0 inside ezmwlucene_1.0.tar. This means that you plop > ezmwlucene_1.0.tar in mediawiki/extensions and then you untar it and your > done. > > What you have chosen to do is totally bizarre. If I do the standard thing I > get client and server directories inside my extension directory and the > client directory contains extensions/EzMwLucene. This is not exactly the > "easy to install" solution I was imagining. > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you so much~! The WMF's implementation is a real PITA to configure. >> >> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Chris Reigrut <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'd like to announce the first release of EzMwLucene. This project >>> provides a simplified Lucene search to Mediawiki. It is designed to be >>> easy to install, configure, and run. It provides real-time, multiple >>> field indexing and searching as well as text indexing of standard >>> attachment types (pdf, xls, doc, ppt, vsd). The server is a self >>> contained Java application (no application server needed), and the >>> client portion is a standard Mediawiki extension. It is currently in >>> production on an internal site with over 1000 users running on Mediawiki >>> 1.13. >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezmwlucene/ >>> >>> I welcome all feedback: questions, suggestions and offers to help >>> improve it! >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
