[MonoDevelop] Lucene-based full-text search

[Sergey Lobko-Lobanovsky]

Thanks Miguel, I will continue my research then.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 2. However, when it comes to searching the source code a dilemma arises. On
>> the one hand, there is the AST tree in MD which is used for all operations
>> including usage search, etc. On the other hand, if Lucene is integrated into
>> the product, it naturally (at least in my opinion) should become the central
>> search service, to be used by other subsystems, such as refactoring, usage
>> search, etc.
>>
>
> I do not think you should use the AST as your source of information, it
> could for instance be incomplete if the source does not parse.
>
> It would also be limiting with languages that have no AST, so I would just
> search the full text of the sources.
>
> Keep it simple, and then if it needs tuning, do the tuning.
>
> Miguel
>
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