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Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack

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Post by dnsauve » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 1:57 PM UTC

Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack
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Re: Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack

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Post by jaddison » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 2:16 PM UTC

David, the project's creator, and Daniel, Haystack's creator/maintainer have managed a good dialogue back and forth, ensuring a decent integration. I know that Xapian-Haystack has gone through a couple of refactoring iterations since inception to provide quality code and project stability.

David welcomes constructive feedback, so try it out and contribute your input for improvement... or just say thank you to him. heh

I intend to use it for http://www.snapact.com/ when I get to that point in Snapact's feature list. There need to be more hours in the day.

Re: Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack

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Post by gstar » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 2:21 PM UTC

Xapian is amazing - it's incredibly fast, and I much prefer it to Lucene and friends. I'm using Xapain with Django right now, but the framework I built to smush them together is hardly elegant.

Can't wait to try this out.

Re: Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack

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Post by dnsauve » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 2:48 PM UTC

gstar wrote: post #3

Xapian is amazing - it's incredibly fast, and I much prefer it to Lucene and friends. I'm using Xapain with Django right now, but the framework I built to smush them together is hardly elegant. Can't wait to try this out.

Thanks for the encouragement. This is my first open source project, and I mainly wrote it because I was disappointed with Djapian's Xapian interface and was quite impressed with Haystack.

Originally, I was planning on using Whoosh for the backend, but quickly ran into issues with locked files when deploying to a live server.

Anyways, I'd love to hear any comments and feedback you may have after you've given the code a try.

Re: Xapian-haystack - A Xapian backend for Django Haystack

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Post by pyroman » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 3:22 PM UTC

dnsauve wrote: post #4

gstar wrote: post #3

Xapian is amazing - it's incredibly fast, and I much prefer it to Lucene and friends. I'm using Xapain with Django right now, but the framework I built to smush them together is hardly elegant. Can't wait to try this out.

Thanks for the encouragement. This is my first open source project, and I mainly wrote it because I was disappointed with Djapian's Xapian interface and was quite impressed with Haystack. Originally, I was planning on using Whoosh for the backend, but quickly ran into issues with locked files when deploying to a live server. Anyways, I'd love to hear any comments and feedback you may have after you've given the code…

I was using haystack with whoosh and running into the same problem. I was waiting for some updates on that, but I think I'll check this out first. Thanks for sharing the code.