From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:49:15 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] preparing for 0.7 In-Reply-To: References: <1237224356-sup-1941@entry> Message-ID: <1237383823-sup-8242@entry> 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