On 7/3/07, Gary Kirk gary.kirk@gmail.com wrote:
I was going to ask that, but I suppose the fact that is like an interface to something else - Lucene - would mean that too would have to be included, or is that just wrong? Don't know anything about it technically to be honest but it sounds interesting and certainly better than MediaWiki's default search ;-).
On 03/07/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/07/07, Robert Stojnic rainmansr@gmail.com wrote:
Tim and I upgraded the lucene search engine during the weekend. It's currently up for en.wiki, rest is to come in next few days.
w00t! Any plans to include this in the MediaWiki distribution tarball by default?
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Lucene cannot be included as it is a program, and requires either precomputed binaries (every operating system needs different ones) or the source code and a compiler. There is no guarantee that the computer MediaWiki is being installed on has a compiler in the required language, there are many variations of compilers and it would only be able to be installed via the web-based installer if safe_mode is disabled. I doubt this will ever be included in the MediaWiki base - an extension is best. Thanks, MinuteElectron.