Nicolas Williams wrote:
One thing I find odd about IPS is that it has its own indexing scheme,
and it doesn't strike me as a very good idea to home-grow your own when
you can use any number of off-the-shelf ones...
If you read the mailing list archives, you'll see that many
off-the-shelf solutions were considered. Unfortunately, they failed to
meet at least one of the following requirements:
* low/controllable resource usage
* minimal or no external dependencies
* useable by both client and server
* not detrimental to livecd
I won't claim there is an off-the-shelf solution that couldn't have been
used, but all of the other ones checked were problematic in one way or
another. For example: pyLucene requires a Java Runtime, MySQL would be
way over the top in dependencies and was not suitable for livecd, sqlite
doesn't really have the indexing/search capabilities desired, etc.
You'd have to ask Brock for the details, but I suspect he's already
posted about it before on this list.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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