Desktop search tool using lucene

[Chris McDonough]

Not that it's terribly fast, but it is pretty easy to use and it's
written in Python:

http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zope/app/catalog/

The indexing code that this employs has been in use within Zope for many
years.

Interesting code examples include:

http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zope/index/text/textindex.txt?rev=28610&view=markup

http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zope/index/text/tests/mhindex.py?rev=29703&view=markup

- C


On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:29 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:18 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:58:29PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> > > They (meaning engineers at redhat) are discussing this. The solution
> > > won't use Lucene, as Lucene treats all fine content as equal - ie, it
> > > doesn't know about headings being different from body text and so on.
> > 
> > One possibility is the muscat engine - thats open source could probably do the
> > job well. It's a little weak on revoking content from the index without a
> > rebuild.
> 
> I think it's the Xapian engine you're talking about?
> http://xapian.org/
> GPL, written in C++. Apparently it's being tried out for use as the
> Gmane search engine.
> 
> /Per
> 
>