[Xapian-discuss] xapian vs lucene.net

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:21:47 +0100, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:01:38AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
>
>[cheeseshop]
>> Dear me, they really really need a search engine instead of using
>> Google!  Or to just sort out which pages Google sees and indexes.
>> Currently Google just pulls up the "whittling down by category tags"
>> page in N different states, which is no use to anybody.
>
>Years ago people used to make sure they had a proper search engine on
>their site. PHP.net used to have one. Now everyone uses Google and
>assumes it'll get it right, which in general it won't :-(
>
>> > (I note that the Xapwrap entry isn't being kept up to date, either.)
>> I had to build the URL by hand, but the latest version (0.3.1) is on
>> there.  The homepage URL it gives is wrong though (it's missing a
>> "/wiki" in the middle.)
>
>Yeah, that's what I meant. Maybe Xapwrap just hasn't moved much
>recently, so they haven't updated the entry since reorging their
>website. (Cool Uris Don't Change :-)
>

Woops.  I don't think that URL was ever valid.  I've fixed this in the
cheeseshop.

Xapwrap development is indeed quite slow these days.  There is an 0.3.2
tag in the repository, but no tarball on the website: hardly anything
changed.

Jean-Paul