[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 0.8.2 released

fabrice.colin at ntlworld.com fabrice.colin at ntlworld.com
Mon Sep 20 09:37:42 BST 2004


> From: Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>
> I think "Applications/Databases" is probably the best fit
> of any of the "Applications" categories.  Xapian is a free
> text searching database (although I suspect many will
> assume "relational database" when they see "database").
> 
I like that, this gets my vote ;-)

> Otherwise "Applications/Text" is probably a shade better
> than "Applications/File".  Most applications for Xapian
> are searching text, though there's no reason you couldn't
> use it for music or image features...
> 
With "Text", people might think that the tools manipulate
text a la sed/awk.

> Perhaps if we can't see a good Applications category it
> would be better to leave it as "System
> Environment/Libraries" rather than try to ram it into an
> ill-suited category.
> 
IIRC, this is what the new -libs package use, isn't ?
As the base package now only contains binaries, something
under "Applciations" seems to make sense.
Just out of curiosity, what do the Debian packages use ?
I am not familiar with Debian, maybe this doesn't apply.

Fabrice

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