[dev] Horde Search candidate

[Marko Djukic]

Quoting Bojan Bedrac <bojan.bedrac at uni-mb.si>:

> Hi!
>
> I am interested in pursuing the development of the Horde Search module,
> under Summer of Code proposals. I have already applied to SoC at Google
> for the project. I would be pleased to get any guidelines on development
> goals. I know they are listed in the bounty page on horde.org. I am
> considering using mnoGoSearch, but am a little sceptic as to the fact
> that mnoGoSearch comes in Windows and Linux (Unix) variant. I believe
> the best thing would be if the search module was platform independent.
> That is why I am starting to consider developing a new base for the
> indexing and search engine. Maybe create the module using purely PHP to
> overcome the platform dependencies. It would require a click of the user
> to index things, but then again, this should be made in a matter of
> seconds, once the database would be built and only needed to update and
> not build again.
>
> Do you think, I'm going in the right direction with this, or should I
> build on mnoGoSearch, regardless of platform dependencies issues.

If you can make it so that it is driver based and can accommodate other search
engines, it should be a viable solution. Look at lucene as well.

Please use the lists especially the dev list, as it gives other developers a
chance to follow the discussions.

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Marko Djukic
Horde Project (http://horde.org/)