[Mediawiki-l] Announcing Easy Lucene Search for Mediawiki (Brian)

[Brian]

I've documented 11 bugs on this extension's talk page.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:EzMwLucene

The summary is that this extension is simply not ready for public use. After
installing it your wiki will be broken in several unacceptable ways.

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Chris Reigrut <chris at reigrut.net> wrote:

> Brian,
>
> You're right about the initial loadling--however, this is actually only
> a problem during the import (the realtime feed doesn't have problems
> with the unicode in the titles).  But, yes, we have seen a couple of
> issues around unicode that we'll need to fix.
>
> As far as the line feeds, good catch.  I thought I'd updated those with
> Linux newlines, but apparently not.  I'll make sure it's fixed for the
> next release.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian Mingus wrote:
> > I just about have this extension running. It sure would benefit from
> > MWSearch's improved unicode handling:
> >
> > <snip>
> > service.sh has funky windows newlines that simply don't work on linux.  I
> > used the ubuntu package tofrodos, which contains the program fromdos,
> which
> > cleaned it up for me.
> >
>
>
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