[pylucene-dev] what happened to PyLucene ?

[Andi Vajda]

koch at orbiteam.de said:

> Yes it is currently a bit silent on the list - but that shouldn't be a bad
> sign. I think the software is quite stable now and so less problem reports
> occur. Usually Andi is quite responsive and I hope he's doing well ,-)

All is good. I just had a small procmail accident :)
Yes, activity has been light, the focus being on the move to Lucene which is 
now complete.

> And no, we don't plan to switch to another solution. We really had serious
> problems with the eary GCJ based solution (namely considerable memory 
> leaks) and this went away after switching to the new JCC based release 
> (which btw causes less installation problems). So we're still working with 
> PyLucene and quite happy with it. We're currently using version '2.3.0' on 
> windows (tested with Python2.5) and '2.4.0' on unix (tested with Python2.5 
> and 2.6).

This is my experience as well. JCC has simplified things for me 
considerably. Yes, I wrote it, so I'm biased, but I've been using it in 
other projects than just PyLucene and it's worked quite well.

For example, I use it to write servlets in Python and run them under Tomcat, 
a Java servlet engine.

Andi..