[Xapian-discuss] For more UI functionality: OmegaScript, C++ or other?

[xapian at catcons.co.uk]

Hello :-)

We have Xapian and Omega working nicely.  Now we would like more
functionality at the browser UI, such as being able to specify date ranges
and being able to search the file name including looking only for, say, .odt
files.

Question is whether the best choice for this would be to develop a template
using OmegaScript or to switch to C++ or some other language.

Availability of skills both for development and long-term support are
relevant.  For development, I am the only resource; my web programming
skills are basic (some hand edited static HTML pages), my C is very rusty
(no C++), I have Ruby (not Ruby on Rails), I like the look of Python and
have never liked perl. For long-term support we have several PHP people in
the organisation (not on this project).

Given the paucity of skills available for development, the Omega template
option is attractive but I am concerned that it may not be a good choice
long term.  Extensive browsing of the mailing lists suggest that it is not a
popular choice.  This is further suggested by the lack of examples of Omega
templates both in the Xapian user-contributed documentation and generally on
the web?  If this impression of Omega templates unpopularity is correct, why
so?  Is it restrictive?
 
Best

Charles