[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 0.8.2 released

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:35:51PM +0100, Fabrice Colin wrote:
> Olly Betts wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:40:53PM +0100, Fabrice Colin wrote:
> >>- Changed base package's Group as this now contains binaries only.
> >>Maybe "Applications/File" would be better suited ?
> >
> >Hmm, Applications/Internet doesn't really sound right.  There's nothing
> >particularly Internet related in here.  But then File doesn't really
> >sound right.  That we use files isn't really the important thing.  But
> >maybe there isn't a good category available...
>
> Yes, it's not obvious...
> Amongst widely used packages, one that deals with indexes is slocate,
> and it's classified as "Applications/File".

But locate is a utility for locating files by name.  The fact it uses
an index isn't the key thing - it just means that "locate olly" is a
lot faster than "find / -name '*olly*' -print"...

I think "Applications/Databases" is probably the best fit of any of the
"Applications" categories.  Xapian is a free text searching database
(although I suspect many will assume "relational database" when they see
"database").

Otherwise "Applications/Text" is probably a shade better than
"Applications/File".  Most applications for Xapian are searching text,
though there's no reason you couldn't use it for music or image
features...

Perhaps if we can't see a good Applications category it would be better
to leave it as "System Environment/Libraries" rather than try to ram
it into an ill-suited category.

Cheers,
    Olly