[okfn-help] Xapian, Shakeseare and Milton

Tue Jul 1 19:23:43 BST 2008

On 07/06/08 13:22, Iain Emsley wrote:
> Dear Rufus and all,
> 
> Apologies for the delay in replying, just got back from an team building 
> away day.

No problem -- as you can see I've also been away and thus rather tardy 
in replying.

> I've just updated the svn repository with the very basic Xapian indexing 
> script. This does need adaptation to read the cache but I really need to 
> download the new version of Shakespeare first and update Milton so that 
> both projects are built in the same way. I have also added in a search 
> function but again it still needs some work to adapt it to being the 
> back end of a form. I've also changed the bin/milton-conf to add an 
> index_text command to run the indexing from the command line.

Great. I'll have a play around too. By the way I think we should 
probably merge the shakespeare/milton stuff together at least in terms 
of the front end and tools stuff -- that way we avoid repeating 
ourselves in standard code stuff (e.g. Xapian indexing or text display 
is pretty similar in the two cases).

> I do have some ideas to put to you for discussion but I'll do that once 
> I've managed to sort out all my notes.

Look forward to hearing it :)

~rufus