It was twenty years ago today...

[Yannick Warnier]

Happy 20 Xapian!

My adventures integrating fuzzy searches in learning management systems
started with MnoGoSearch around 2005 (I'm not sure it still exists),
then I quickly moved to Xapian (I don't remember how or why exactly I
did the switch, though).

Despite other search engines being more attractive for specific items,
I find the true advantage of Xapian for me is not to be relying on
Java, so it can actually safely be run in the background of a PHP web
application without introducing horrible dependencies (and thus can
also do the job without excessive resources).

In particular, Olly, you've been an incredibly consistant project
leader and contributor and have always had the right answer for anyone.
Thank you very much.

If I ever visit Cambridge (not sure you're still there), I'll try to
remember and bring you some of our lovely Belgian beers :-)

Cheers,

Yannick


Le mardi 22 octobre 2019 à 03:29 +0100, Olly Betts a écrit :
> Xapian has turned 20!
> 
> Strictly speaking it was 20 years ago last month but I managed to
> miss
> the true anniversary - the oldest commit in the Xapian repo is:
> 
> commit 8ced76ea128c8fb2792477e09b41fa989f2e572f
> Author: Richard Boulton <richard at tartarus.org>
> Date:   Fri Sep 10 09:50:40 1999 +0000
> 
>     Martins initial code, which didn't work for him but did for me.
> 
> Back then Richard, Martin and I all worked for BrightStation, and
> Richard and I were working in a small office high above the foyer of
> St
> John's Innovation Centre in Cambridge, UK - just behind the "/" strut
> below the highest part of the roof about 1/4 in from the right of the
> photo on:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Innovation_Centre#/media/Fi
> le:St_Johns_Innovation_Centre.jpg
> 
> This was before the project was called Xapian.  Then 18 years ago
> (actually to the day):
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/omseek/mailman/omseek-discuss/?viewmonth=20
> 0110
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
>