[Mono-docs-list] monodoc status?

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
26 Mar 2003 11:28:39 -0500


Hello,

> > > How's search/indexing coming along? Is there a design or
> > > work-in-progress for any of it?
> >
> > For searching, I want to reuse the Evolution searching library.  Michael
> > Zucchi from Evolution has been kind enough to package the library as a
> > standalone library that we can use, but I have lacked the time to work
> > on integrating it.
> 
> Will that be easy to wrap into C#?

It should be, yes.

> I have a fair amount of experience with a great free Java full-text
> search engine - Apache Lucene. More info can be found on its web page at
> http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/
> 
> It has a C# port named NLucene; is this something you might consider
> using for searching, or does the evolution search library fit the bill
> for sure?

I might consider using it, yes.  But I am a bit behind there ;-)

> Where can I read up on the evolution searching library? Does it have any
> white papers/articles, API docs you could point me at?

None of that sort, you would have to read the source code ;-(

Miguel