Friend Bob forwards Firefox tips. Thanks Bob!
an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
Friend Bob forwards Firefox tips. Thanks Bob!
My friend Sa-ul has a new poem podcast up at lunalopez.net.
Those crazy random spam generators appear to have found my number: random sentence fragments about politics and technology seem to fool SpamAssassin and end up in my inbox. Here’s a good one:
Just uploaded SWISH-Prog 0.03 and Search-Tools 0.02 to the CPAN. They join SWISH-API-More, SWISH-API-Stat and SWISH-API-Object on the CPAN this week.
Whew.
One of the things I like most about using other IR libraries as backends is that many of them offer language bindings in multiple other languages. So PHP, Ruby, Python, etc., users can be happy right away with search ability.
Of course, if the indexing program is Perl instead of C, there is that added requirement. But hopefully, if the indexing API is well documented, there’s nothing to stop implementations in other scripting languages besides Perl.
Take Xapian for example. They have bindings available in nearly every major scripting language. So if you don’t like the way Swish-e implements the indexing scheme, there’s nothing to stop you from writing your own in your favorite language. At which point, you’re not really using Swish-e any more. But you could mix/match depending on your needs. Use Swish-e’s spider and SWISH::Filter, but your own parser and indexer, for example.
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