[Xapian-discuss] debian packages with php bindings

[Pascal MASSCHELIER]

Hi, Olly,

I use xapian for years for a small e-commerce website and I'm very happy
with it. Many thanks to you for this unvaluable piece of software.

But nothing's perfect, I keep having regrets about for a couple of things

- I can't get recent debian compiled packages, the latest I can find for
squeeze is v1.2.12 and there's no php binding with ti so I must spend time
(and take a risk of mistakes) compiling them msyelf
I think it's a issue because xapian is a very well performing engine, let's
say the best open-sourced engine without java requirement, It's a real
value,  and lack of debian availbility really deserves it. Considering
mainstream binaries and bindings would make it a killer choice.

- I never managed to work with multiple-valued properties correctly
Considering a blue/geen product, I want its entry to match both colors.
How to find ti with both colors, and have the color matcher count it for
each color ?
To be able to cope with multple values, I'm currently running a special
layer on sofware reliing on mongodb and it make my search architecture a
bit messy and unnecessarily complex.
I think I'm a doing +1 on http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/198


Best regards