[KinoSearch] State of multisearcher/sorting in svn

[Henry]

Apologies for delay in responding - my email forwarding from public
spam-magnet to private email was b0rk3n.

> On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:23 AM, Henry wrote:
> There's a working implementation, but it's disabled by default and
> requires an undocumented call to enable it.
>
>    KinoSearch::Search::MultiSearcher->set_enable_sorting(1);
>
> It's that way because I basically want only people who are subscribed
> to this list to be able to use that feature.

Ah yes, I recall the above function; I was just curios as to whether
anything had changed.

> The infrastructure required to pull that trick off is quite
> elaborate.  It took a long time to write, and I'm concerned that by
> dint of its sheer size that there are bugs lurking.  In particular, I
> don't like the implementation of MultiLexicon.  I wish there was a
> better way.

Kudos for pulling it off!  As Yoda would say, a Perl Monk of elevated
eliteness you are, creamygoodness.

I hope to start flexing this aspect of KS soon and will provide feedback
then.

Cheers
Henry