[pylucene-dev] How compile pyLucene on Solaris 10

[Andi Vajda]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, mario alejandro wrote:

> Yes, I read the docs. I took the GCJ route because the jcc route look far
> more complicated, demand install a lot more and demanding a java start for
> each request sound very bad. I need run under a 256 RAM limit, and I'm not
> sure if this could scale well (I must fit the webserver, postgress, django,
> python, nginx).

Think again :)

The JCC route is much easier to install and the runtime size much easier to 
control. By default, depending on the OS, the Java VM uses around 32-64m.

There is no reason to believe (and much harder to measure) that libgcj, 
gcj's VM, is using any less. Also, getting gcj to produce a sane PyLucene on 
Solaris might be tricky.

> In the other hand, why is so hard to install pylucene? I'm on google reading
> about it a look like everyone have problems with this.

Yes, gcj is tricky to get right. On the other hand, jcc-PyLucene is almost 
trivial to install in comparison.

Andi..