[pylucene-dev] About compiling with gcc 4.2

[David Fraser]

Greg Kuperberg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 07:11:56PM -0600, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
>   
>>> If PyLucene had a wiki, that would give it a better chance to
>>> evolve into good documentation.
>>>       
>> probably, wiki's are useful, but you also have to combat wiki spam, and it  
>> takes time to organize them usefully, their not a magic pancea.
>>     
>
> These are fair concerns.  I guess my real suggestion is to somehow have
> documentation in HTML, and not just stashed in a README file.  Even
> if it were just an old-fashioned web page, placed both in the
> package and on the site, it would be an improvement.
>
> But if it were a wiki, you could try to protect it with registration
> and captchas.  I would suppose that some of the wiki software has
> those features.
>
>   
>> if you just want something easy to install there is also xapian.
>>     
>
> Maybe, although I would also have to rewrite my search module.
>
> I picked Lucene because it looked like the open source leader.
> I just did some Google searches to compare alternatives:
>
>     Lucene - 8 million pages
>     Xapian - 380 thousand pages
>     PyLucene - 105 thousand pages
>
> These numbers do not encourage me to switch from Lucene to Xapian.
> On the other hand, I am not parting with Python, and Xapian does at
> least Google more than PyLucene.
>
> Anyway, I am really sorry if this sounds lame and unhelpful.  My project
> is invested in PyLucene, but there are continuing issues with installation
> and documentation.  I just don't have the preparation to solve these
> problems myself.  I am at the other end of it; I would benefit the most
> from improvements in these two areas.
>   
We've found PyLucene works great but compiling etc is harder for all the 
reasons mentioned above - the current trade off is live with that or 
improve it as others have said...
Andi's amazing with his constant cheerfulness on the mailing list - and 
of course the development he does which is fairly mind-boggling.
> Certainly I do not need any new features.  As I said, the Lucene API seems
> overwritten to me.  I use as little of the API as I can get away with.
> About the only missing feature in Lucene itself that would be useful is
> a server mode, like MySQL has -- I don't know if Lucene 2.0 does that
You may want to check out solr:
http://incubator.apache.org/solr/
This is a server that basically seems to wrap Lucene and serve queries 
using HTTP etc - and it seems to have Python bindings...
Would be interested to hear what you find out if you try it

David