Brion Vibber writes: > Justin Conover wrote: > > Anyone thought about converting beagle(mono) to java, is it possible > > with some changes to the code? I saw something months back about the > > diffs between java/mono and how it is possible to write apps for both > > without much pain, I'm not a developer and don't really know enough > > about java atm to say yes/no ;-) > > > > Just thought if it is possible, that would be a good project since > > fedora/rh doesn't want to go down the mono route for what i think are > > good reasons. > > > > For example, didn't Wikipedia mv from GCJ and Lucene to Mono and > > Dotlucene? I don't know if there is any similarity between DotLucene > > and Beagle, but if Lucene does some kind of indexing/searching would it > > be possible to write some kind of Lucene interface to index dir on a > > desktop? > > DotLucene is a C# port of Java Lucene; the API is the same (modulo the > silly .NET case conventions). Lucene itself is an indexing and retrieval > engine, basically a database targetted at text searching. > > Wikipedia's search engine is a relatively small networked daemon with a > bit of wrapper code, so it was easy to move from Java to C# and would be > easy to move back. (My biggest problem with GCJ, and the reason I > switched that app to C#/Mono, has been memory leaks. Possibly this is > from heap fragmentation, I hope to find the time to investigate it > someday...) So do I. I would very much like to get to the bottom of this. Andrew.
