[Xapian-discuss] zip/rar support

[Reini Urban]

Hi
I seem to like xapian/omega a lot, so that my company will use it internally.

I didn't use any binding (perl,php) yet, and did most additional logic
in simple php wrappers,
calling to the cgi and displaying the highlighted result iframe'd from
the query template.
Also some cool layout as in
http://www2.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/?view=brief&Ntt=civil+war&Ntk=Keyword&N=0&Nty=1

Problems:
* omindex support for zip,rar,outlook msg and excel xls.

I hacked a preliminary custom filter for xls and msg into the omindex.cc,
  http://www.fileformat.info/format/outlookmsg/
And added zip/rar support by decrompessing into a root+"/tmp/"+file dir,
indexing there and removing the root+"/tmp/"+file afterwards.

Is this a good idea?
Or should I prefer hacking scriptindex which I will need sooner or
later to support meta fields.

BTW: I'll provide official cygwin packages soon. cygwin has much
better external filter
support than mingw or msvc.
They are already at my setup site for some time, but not officially ITP'd yet.
-- 
Reini Urban
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