From 8977f8cc3d8706f65ea1068168c1c2ba3a598a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:46:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] xapian --- doc/todo/different_search_engine.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/todo/different_search_engine.mdwn b/doc/todo/different_search_engine.mdwn index 592c159b3..0eab6a8b8 100644 --- a/doc/todo/different_search_engine.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/different_search_engine.mdwn @@ -3,8 +3,14 @@ the [[plugins/search]] plugin, is not robust enough for ikiwiki. It doesn't upgrade well, and it has a habit of sig-11 on certian input from time to time. -So some other engine should be found and used instead. Enrico had one that -he was using for debtags stuff that looked pretty good. +So some other engine should be found and used instead. + +Enrico had one that he was using for debtags stuff that looked pretty good. +That was [Xapian](http://www.xapian.org/), which has perl bindings in +libsearch-xapian-perl. The nice thing about xapian is that it does a ranked +search so it understands what words are most important in a search. (So +does Lucene..) Another nice thing is it supports "more documents like this +one" kind of search. --[[Joey]] >> I've done a bit of prototyping on this. The current hip search library is [Lucene](http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/). There's a Perl port called [Plucene](http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Plucene-1.25/). Given that it's already packaged, as `libplucene-perl`, I assumed it would be a good starting point. I've written a **very rough** patch against `IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm` to handle the indexing side (there's no facility to view the results yet, although I have a command-line interface working). That's below, and should apply to SVN trunk. @@ -17,6 +23,10 @@ he was using for debtags stuff that looked pretty good. >> If this seems a sensible approach, I'll write the CGI interface, and clean up the plugin. -- Ben +>>> The weird thing about lucene is that these are all reimplmentations of +>>> it. Thank you java.. The C++ version seems like a better choice to me +>>> (packages are trivial). --[[Joey]] + 
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