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From: olly@survex.com (Olly Betts)
Subject: [sup-talk] U (unread) search is off
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:18:51 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090915T090521-2@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252878152-sup-9190@zyrg.net>

Rich Lane <rlane at club.cc.cmu.edu> writes:
> Agreed that Xapian should have this, and I'll probably implement it. We
> still need to support people using older Xapian versions though. Whether
> this means a log message telling them to use explicit ANDs in their
> query, or automatically transforming simple-enough queries into what we
> think they actually want, I don't know. I'll also need to add a
> workaround for the earlier Xapian bug before this index gets wider
> usage.

I've now opened a Xapian ticket for this:

http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/402

Patches are certainly most welcome, especially as I'm currently trying to
focus on getting Xapian 1.2.0 out of the door.

I don't see a satisfactory workaround for it, sadly.

> As far as which index to make the default, Ferret has the advantage of
> being installable as a gem dependency. I think this ease of installation
> is important enough to block Xapian for now, unless someone can create a
> Xapian gem. There's been interest in this before:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.devel/1408/

I recently noticed this gem version of (modified) xapian-bindings:

http://groups.google.com/group/acts_as_xapian/msg/1bbb1e0d3753a0b7

I've not had a chance to look at it yet though, so I don't know if the
changes mentioned are compatible or not.  Assuming they're useful, they
probably should be folded in upstream - more idiomatic wrappers are a
desirable improvement (though if they're incompatible we'd need some
sort of migration plan).  It doesn't seem productive to have forked
versions like this either.

Cheers,
    Olly



      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09 13:54 Ben Walton
2009-09-10 11:22 ` Ingmar Vanhassel
2009-09-10 13:59   ` William Morgan
2009-09-10 14:04     ` Ben Walton
2009-09-10 16:17       ` Rich Lane
2009-09-10 17:13         ` Ben Walton
2009-09-10 14:08     ` Ingmar Vanhassel
2009-09-10 16:16     ` Rich Lane
2009-09-12 16:47       ` William Morgan
2009-09-14  0:31         ` Rich Lane
2009-09-15  7:18           ` Olly Betts [this message]

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