[KinoSearch] lucene indexes

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On Jan 26, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:

> The only release of KS that could read a Lucene (version 1.4.3)  
> index was 0.05, and that was only for pure ASCII source material.
>
> The Lucene file format is gnarly -- it uses the illegal aberration  
> "modified UTF-8" for text encoding, it's compromised by exceedingly  
> complex optimizations, etc.  The format wasn't originally designed  
> to be public; the spec was published as an afterthought.   
> Developments since 1.4.3 have made it even harder to work with.

Alas, sigh.

BTW, I see that version 0.20 of KinoSearch supports sorting. Cool!

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan



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