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.
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