Re: (your mail)

Thanks all for the explanation. At least I know now that mifluz is
not so attractive to integrate it into Zope for fulltext indexing since
it has similiar or better functionalities already.

Andreas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Hutchison" <[email protected]>
To: "Yann Poupet" <[email protected]>; "Andreas Jung" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 14:46
Subject: Re: [Mifluz-dev] (your mail)


> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Yann Poupet wrote:
>
> > > - is mifluz actively maintained at the moment?
> > NO!!!
>
> Agreed, at the moment Loic seems to be AWOL. That's not to say that it
> would be hard to restart development if interested parties could be
> found. The ht://Dig group is probably the most interested party. :-)
>
> > > - is mifluz aware of handling unicode (utf-8, uftp-16)?
> > no, don't think so
>
> I'd agree--I think at the moment it can handle any 8-bit locale. I can
> certainly think of a few places where 8-bit assumptions are made and these
> will need to be fixed. But no one has seriously come forward as far as
> tackling this. (I'd guess it's more a matter of someone who understands
> coding issues with UTF-8, etc.)
>
> > > - how does mifluz support relevance ranking?
> > that's my main problem...
>
> IMHO, this is *not* something for mifluz. Either you insert a score with
> the word records, or you do the scoring from the results, like ht://Dig.
>
> > > - does it support pattern matching or globbing in some way?
> > supports suffix globbing
>
> I think you mean prefix globbing.
>
> Again, look at the ht://Dig fuzzy algorithms. The easiest way is to
> construct an "alternative" list and execute multiple queries.
>
> In a B-Tree, it's easy to do a prefix match and pull out the subtree
> of all matches. Any other sort of globbing would require a different
> database structure *OR* multiple queries.
>
> <http://www.htdig.org/>
>
> --
> -Geoff Hutchison
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