On 08/05/06, Elliott F. Cable <ecable(a)avxw.com> wrote: Yes. You've seen the extension used to hook MediaWiki up to "the Lucene boxes" which are using the Apache Lucene engine. Rob Church

On 08/05/06, Elliott F. Cable <ecable(a)avxw.com> wrote: I don't know of plans to add it as a core part of the software in the immediate future. Lucene isn't simple to set up, from what I've heard (although I confess, I've never bothered to do it). As for what it does, what's "it" ? The extension, as I've explained, allows MediaWiki to use an external Lucene search daemon to handle internal searching, which is better than the built-in search tool that utilises MySQL's full text indexing. Details on Lucene search can be found at http://lucene.apache.org. It's a Java-based document indexing and search system. Rob Church

Elliott F. Cable wrote: Perhaps you have a broken version of it? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)