[haiku-gsoc] Re: Full Text Search and Indexing -- Looking for opinions/comments
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:03:16 +0200
On 2009-05-23 at 20:52:03 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ankur Sethi <get.me.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 1. Indexing and Querying Library: Will perform analysis on the files
> > and take care of building and querying the search database.
> >
> > I have been looking around for already available information
> > retrieval
> > libraries. The two major projects I found are CLucene and Xapian.
> > CLucene is the more popular of the two, but I think building it will
> > require GCC4. Xapian is under the GPL, so I don't know if that will
> > be
> > acceptable. The last option is, of course, writing one from scratch,
> > which may not be a good idea given the project timeline.
>
> The GPL should not be used in libraries, even if it's only used . Have
> you tried building CLucene, or why do you think it needs GCC4? Even if
> it needs GCC4, it should not be a show stopper, as only the indexing
> server will link against this library, right?
> And the communication with the server is GCC agnostic in any case.
I wouldn't even care to add any hacks to make it work with a gcc 2 Haiku.
If it only works with gcc 4, so be it. We'll likely do a hybrid release, so
it wouldn't matter anyway. If we don't, then the feature will just have to
wait for a later release before being included.
CU, Ingo
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