[Zope] ZCatalog alternative

Casey Duncan c.duncan@nlada.org
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:16:01 -0500


On Tuesday 13 November 2001 08:01 pm, Chris Withers allegedly wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
> > What we
> > really need
> > is more more open architecture of the ZCatalog for things like splitters,
> > stemmers etc.
> > I have some ideas in mind but they have not find their place in a
> > proposal.
>
> Well, I have a very open-architectured ZCatalog equivalent called Indexer.
> I was hoping to release it once I'd made it scare to full text searching
> 40,000 1-5 page documents. However, ZODB seems not to be able to handle
> this and is holding up the release.
>
> I actually have splitters written in python (no, not one that works for
> unicode yet...) sinze, if you think about it, splitting _doesnt_ need to be
> lightning quick since it only happens once when the document is indexed
> (and maybe when parsing the queru, but queries are usually very short...)
>
> If anyone is interested in this, help me make it scale. Then I can write
> docs and release it...
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris

Hell Yes. Release early, release often!!

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