On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 07:02, David L Norris wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 15:27 +0000, Gavin Henry wrote: > > I thought that maybe you guys would have some input on this? > > > > > We heavily use Swish-e (www.swish-e.org) for the fileservers we > > > install. > > > > This can handle html, xhtml, txt, pdf and the like. > > > > I've just looked at the page now, but it looks like a very useful bit of > > software. > > Swish-e doesn't support incremental indexing very well (yet). Right now > you're looking at a complete reindex every night or at least after every > change. Swish-e doesn't support Unicode. Although we've been > discussing (on swishe-cvs list and privately) a major overhaul for > Swish-e 3.0 to fix those things and remove the legacy Swish code. We > could use the help of a developer who is familiar with porting > applications to Unicode. > > Swish-e Resources: > http://swish-e.org/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/swishe/ > http://swishewiki.org/ > > Also, Josh Rabinowitz wrote a Perl script called sman which uses > libswish-e and SWISH::API to provide a more featureful replacement to > apropos. > > If there's interest in getting Swish-e into Fedora Extras then I'd be > willing to commit any required changes upstream. There are a few Perl > issues that have kept me from completing the RPMs. SWISH::API is > particularly difficult to package because it assumes libswish-e is > already installed. I would be very interested in getting it into Extras and even help with the incremental stuff. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1467 624141 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E ghenry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
