Patents Must Die.notes

TITLE OF PAPER: Patents & Stuff
URL OF PRESENTATION: _URL_of_powerpoint_presentation_
PRESENTED BY: Mike Salib (msalib@divmod.com)
REPRESENTING: _name_of_the_company_they_represent_

CONFERENCE: PyCon 2005
DATE: _date_of_your_conference_here_
LOCATION: _venue_and_room_in_venue_

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- Why using xapian? Divmod does thing to index email, blogs, feeds, etc.
- but ran into problems, hence created xapwrap
- improved locking (xapien doesn't really lock well)
- improved ref handling, so things cleanup properly
- improved error handling (is this all an advert for xapwrap?)
- turn off stemming in xapien
- auto-flatteners (allows searching by other things that promote to strings for xap search)

- tried lucene, but slow, though index about 1/3 the size
- tried pyrexifying it, worked great

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http://www.xapian.org/
http://divmod.org/users/msalib/patents

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