[Zope-dev] Catalog improvements

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:27:47 +0000


Matt Hamilton wrote:
> 
> I would like in on that too :)  About a year or so ago I was working on a
> full-text indexing system for indexing several gigabytes of text (mailing
> list archives).  Most of it was written in C and uses quite a lot of cool
> algorithms from various information retrieval papers and books.  I have
> been hoping to have the time to take parts of it and work it into the new
> PluginIndex architecture.  The existing code uses BerkeleyDB files to hold
> the index structures, but I would like to use ZODB instead to give it a
> bit more modularity.

Hi Matt,

Are any of these algorithms publicly available? I'd be _very_ interested in them
:-)

Chris