[Xapian-discuss] Re: Xapian vs Lucene

[Jim]

James Aylett wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:29:03AM +0000, Jason White wrote:
>
>   
>>> It should still be balanced with a quote I had the other day:
>>> "I looked at the Xapian website, and it looked like it was a page
>>> written by a 14 years old boy, whereas the Lucene website looks very
>>> professional".
>>>       
>> I *strongly* disagree.
>>
>> The Xapian Web site was clearly written by an expert. It is well organized,
>> and informative.
>>     
>
> I think the distinction needs to be drawn between content and
> presentation (which includes things like executive
> summaries). Xapian's website is very much for developers as it stands,
> and also doesn't benefit from being hosted on the Apache Forrest
> system, which gives it a whole load of CMS features straight away. (On
> the other hand, I as a developer personally find the Apache sites
> quite awkward, because it can be difficult to find the documentation
> and download links.)
>   
I agree, ignoring content, the lucene site just looks better.  It is 
definitely better eye candy and that appeals to non technical folks. 
I've implement both Lucene and Xapian search engines, but you see what 
list I'm active on.  

Jim.