Re: Digital Librarian (was: Cocoa Documentation on NSFormatter)
Re: Digital Librarian (was: Cocoa Documentation on NSFormatter)
- Subject: Re: Digital Librarian (was: Cocoa Documentation on NSFormatter)
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:06:20 -0500
I'm actually in the midst of writing a DL replacement using the Lucene
framework from Jakarta.
It is mostly functional-- as soon as it can usefully display a set of
results against the documentation provided by Apple, I will post a 0.1.
If anyone wants to contribute to it, I would be happy to give access to
the CVS repository.
Be forewarned; it is Java/Cocoa (because Lucene is pure Java).
Lucene: A wonderful Jakarta project that implements a similar set of
functionality as the Indexing Kit. Damned fast-- both for indexing and
searches. Supports full threading, which is handy but I'm not going
there in 0.1. Very straightforward API.
(I created this project because I felt that the other DL replacements had
great UIs, but really suffered on the indexing front. I needed to
research lucene anyway and this seemed like a really useful project.)
b.bum