Re: Error message while searching.

Fixed.

This is a good time to mention we switched mainline search
over to PyLucene yesterday afternoon.

Both search engine contenders are quite excellent; we could happily
go with either one. PyLucene has advantages in UTF-8 maturity
and more efficient disk usage. Xapian has advantages of better
upstream support and is better maintainability from a system
administration perspective.  For management types who like colorful
spreadsheets:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pKHp5ItRZ0SUL0PKhN_ssfA

Anyway, we had to do something as it really was time to retire
HtDig 3.1 and Xapian was still rebuilding. :) We'll see how this works
out in the short term and nothing prevents re-evaluation. There will
undoubtedly be minor glitches to iron out, for example II still need to
put in the help link I promised Mac. But search on most lists should
be working really well.

Jeff

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