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From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] preparing for 0.7
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:49:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237383823-sup-8242@entry> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a412e2a70903171129v22fe7bc0o6174ad3be6af73@mail.gmail.com>

Reformatted excerpts from Mark Alexander's message of 2009-03-17:
> I wasn't willing to give up completely, though, and started to
> investigate the idea of replacing ferret with Sphinx (yes, I know
> about the Sup-As-Service project, but I was impatient).  I didn't get
> too far with that, though (lack of time, mainly).  Sphinx is a pain,
> frankly, and I was racking my brains for ways of dealing sanely with
> the incremental indexing, the matching of message IDs with Sphinx IDs,
> and the XML interface.

I played around with Sphinx a little bit since that's apparently the hot
shit nowadays, but had a similar experience---the combination of having
to feed everything to it in XML, manually manage the incremental
indexes, and deal with a remote server that would take 1-2 seconds to
pick up changes was hellish. I was not motivated to continue.

So I still think Ferret is the best search engine for Ruby apps, despite
being unmaintained and highly thread-unsafe.

> So I'm really glad to see the new release and hope the ferret-related
> bugs are gone.  So far things look good.  It's lasted lots longer than
> it did before, but I'm feeling cautious and will run it for a few more
> days before considering moving away from mutt full-time.

Glad to hear it. I'm definitely interested in whether it holds up.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-16 17:27 William Morgan
2009-03-17 18:29 ` Mark Alexander
2009-03-18 13:49   ` William Morgan [this message]
2009-03-18 15:39     ` Lee Hinman
2009-03-19 17:02       ` William Morgan
2009-03-18 21:11     ` Mark Alexander
2009-03-19 19:18     ` Mark Alexander
2009-03-19 19:25       ` William Morgan
2009-03-19 20:41         ` Mark Alexander
2009-04-15 17:29           ` [sup-talk] Lost Maildir Messages Iain

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