Re: Followup: opinions on Search services

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 21:58 -0500, Manuel Amador wrote:
>
> > I was wondering, did any of you guys had a shot at trying Search
> > services?  Did you find it useful?  Do you have any ideas for
> > improvement in this area?
>
>
> I haven't played with it yet, but I did peruse the code a little.  My
> question is, why a new project when something like Beagle is aimed at
> almost the exact same problem?

The problem is that neither of them are really optimal solutions nor are 
they likely to achieve broad acceptance for one reason or another.

However for technical reasons :

1) Indexing is both CPU and resource intensive ergo Python and C# are 
not really a good choice for this - it would be a lot better to do it in C.

2) Use of an SQL database is a far superior, faster and flexible 
solution to using a dedicated indexer like the lucerne engine (all other 
competing engines like spotlight use sql databases). This is one area 
search services has got right.

3) It really needs to be a freedesktop solution written in C cause it 
looks likely that KDE will produce their own solution so adding to a lot 
of needless wheel reinvention.


jamie.



> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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