2021: suggestion: s/Lucene/Xapian/ ?

shig****@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.)
Jan. 10, 2014 
The admin docs state:
> We use PyLucene for our search functionality. It can be
> complicated to install, and requires a working Java
> installation.
Just in case, did you look at xapian.org?  It's quite amazing an indexer/search engine (powering gmane search among others) written in C++, and it does have python bindings as well as xappy the higher-level interface.

I use it with recoll.org for local docs/mail search and with Xapian Omega for LAN indexing (e.g. bugzilla attachments search), the speed is stunning and Recoll's results are more accurate for me than Google's, when applicable.

Thanks!
david
#1 david
  • +Component-Search
david
#2 david 
I've just pushed a change to master (aa44d9e) which switches out the search backend from pylucene (which is highly annoying) to django-haystack with the whoosh backend. This is therefore obsolete.
  • +Fixed
david
#3 david 
Pardon, the commit is 6859662.