Hey Jonathan,
> I'm interested in working with and maybe on Plucene. We use
> Lucene at work, and it's nice to see a Perl port of it. I've
> two main interests - one is adding latent semantic indexing
> capability to Plucene
..just a thought, but since Plucene is a port would it be more generally
useful to contribute to the Java code-base? I also think you'll find a much
more active user/developer community there.
> The other thing I'd be interested in is adding at least some
> of the wrapper material that would make Plucene a little more
> friendly 'out of the box'. I don't think Plucene is ever
> going to be the right tool for a simple search functionality
> in small ISP hosted websites, but I think there's a lot more
> Plucene (and Lucene...) could do to make all the clever stuff
> under the hood a bit more accessible.
I totally agree. Make sure you check out Simon's work related to this.
http://search.cpan.org/~simon/Plucene-SearchEngine-1.1/
-Brice
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