Commentüs on: Open Source Desktop Search http://blog.lucene.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/ Ramblings about Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop & other stuff Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:48:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Anyms http://blog.lucene.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-4138 Anyms Sat, 12 May 2007 12:50:07 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-4138 I fully agree with Anonymous' comments. I really don't mind a one time huge download - all that matters to me is the runtime performance - the leanest it is on resources - the better. Considering the fact that it is going to run continuously in the background, it definitely cannot be a resource hog! I fully agree with Anonymous’ comments. I really don’t mind a one time huge download - all that matters to me is the runtime performance - the leanest it is on resources - the better. Considering the fact that it is going to run continuously in the background, it definitely cannot be a resource hog!

]]> By: Techknight http://blog.lucene.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-378 Techknight Mon, 27 Feb 2006 04:29:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-378 We do have few open source desktop search applications which I find are on their way to become stable and provide robust search features. Though nascent we should be soon seeing some action here. I have found two of them and mentioned my experience with them <a HREF="http://open-source.onestop.net/2006/02/open-source-desktop-search.html" TITLE="Open Source Applications for Windows" rel="nofollow">here.</A> We do have few open source desktop search applications which I find are on their way to become stable and provide robust search features. Though nascent we should be soon seeing some action here. I have found two of them and mentioned my experience with them here.

]]> By: miguel http://blog.lucene.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-377 miguel Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:04:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-377 One of the considerations has always been to keep Beagle portable to let it move to other platforms. The problem is that there is little demand for such engine today on Windows or MacOS X, considering that the space is fairly well served today and is likely going to improve. Anyways Firefox is a perfect example that I might be wrong. Now, regarding large runtime downloads: Mono can be cut in pieces, this is routinely done by folks distributing Mono-based applications on MacOS X: they only ship the libraries that they need, which usually amounts to four to six megabytes uncompressed. There are two other bits of good news: we have been working on a "linker" for .NET libraries which will help people in shipping only the bits they actually need: today the granularity is at the library level, in the future we will make this happen at the function level. The last good news is that Mono provides a mechanism to bundle the runtime, the libraries and the application into a single binary if they want to. Anyways, am big fan of all your work. One of the considerations has always been to keep Beagle portable to let it move to other platforms.

The problem is that there is little demand for such engine today on Windows or MacOS X, considering that the space is fairly well served today and is likely going to improve. Anyways Firefox is a perfect example that I might be wrong.

Now, regarding large runtime downloads: Mono can be cut in pieces, this is routinely done by folks distributing Mono-based applications on MacOS X: they only ship the libraries that they need, which usually amounts to four to six megabytes uncompressed.

There are two other bits of good news: we have been working on a “linker” for .NET libraries which will help people in shipping only the bits they actually need: today the granularity is at the library level, in the future we will make this happen at the function level.

The last good news is that Mono provides a mechanism to bundle the runtime, the libraries and the application into a single binary if they want to.

Anyways, am big fan of all your work.

]]> By: fatcrab http://blog.lucene.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-376 fatcrab Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:09:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-376 <B>where can i download the source of desktop Lucene myemail ddong0524@yahoo.com.cn </B> where can i download the source of desktop Lucene myemail ddong0524@yahoo.com.cn

]]> By: Search Engine Information http://blog.lucene.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-375 Search Engine Information Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:51:00 +0000 http://cutting.wordpress.com/2005/02/14/open-source-desktop-search-2/#comment-375 I prefer the small download size in the long run because I believe the browser requirements will disappear pretty soon. Mike I prefer the small download size in the long run because I believe the browser requirements will disappear pretty soon.

Mike

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