[Mono-docs-list] monodoc status?

Lee Mallabone mono-docs@fonicmonkey.net
26 Mar 2003 16:45:51 +0000


On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:28, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 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/
> 
> I might consider using it, yes.  But I am a bit behind there ;-)

It is arguably the best search library available for Java, but I haven't
looked in detail at the dot net port.

> > 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 ;-(

Hmmm. I suspect reading C source code isn't a quick way to learn an API,
and reading C# wrapped C source code is an even slower way!

If it really does get adopted for monodoc, would there be any chance of
you convincing the relevant person to write a high level overview of the
library's architecture and/or key code points?

Is there any time frame/deadline on the browser's search development? If
you think it might be worth it, I may take a look into how much work a
Lucene based search feature would take?

Regards,

Lee.