On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > That is indeed a good use case. However I also think that it will "do > the right thing" by default without any needs to specify the sort > order, see http://xesam.org/main/XesamSearchAPI#sorting > > As far as I can tell Lucene and SQLite should be able to do it very > easily. Xapian can do it too, but it will require some work (although > I am a bit unsure of how much). > > Looking at that paragraph I figure there is something wrong with the > example in there. The numbers (int and float) are clearly ordered in > ascending order while the example states that it is in descending... > We should do something about this. How have people implemented this - > if anybody has done so yet?
Ditto on Strings, BTW, at least as per my understanding of 'ascending' w.r.t. string sorting. Regards, -- Arun Raghavan (http://nemesis.accosted.net) v2sw5Chw4+5ln4pr6$OFck2ma4+9u8w3+1!m?l7+9GSCKi056 e6+9i4b8/9HTAen4+5g4/8APa2Xs8r1/2p5-8 hackerkey.com _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
