From bb1f03f0b9692ca782e8c397b87a09d7455c4452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:42:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Note the advantages of Xapian 1.0.18+ and 1.1.4+ These versions provide greatly desired performance advantages for notmuch. Previously, theses details existed in an old NEWS entry, but most users are unlikely to find those details there. Put them here where we mention the Xapian dependency. --- INSTALL | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index bc7bc677..9cf328ee 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ which are each described below: Xapian is available from http://xapian.org - After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command - named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At - least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config - program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ). + Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or + Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether + 1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow + when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when + reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing + the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread. GMime 2.4 --------- -- 2.26.2