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To: Michael Maclean <michael@no-surprises.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Test OpenGrok installation (LXR replacement?)
From: philip@roshambo.org (Philip Olson)


On Dec 27, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Michael Maclean wrote:

> Hi,
> Since LXR hasn't been updating since the shift to SVN, I've been =
investigating bringing it back. Today, though, I came across OpenGrok =
which appears to be a far more modern implementation of the same thing, =
using Lucene as the back end. I've set up a test installation of it at =
http://php-og.mgdm.net if anyone is interested in playing with it.
>=20
> Advantages seem to be:
> * It's really quite fast
> * It has a nicer UI, in my opinion
> * It's not too hard to set up
> * It handles multiple branches *relatively* well
> * It does incremental indexing, which I don't think LXR does
>=20
> It has the potential disadvantage that it requires Tomcat, which means =
running another web server somewhere, but I'm quite willing to volunteer =
to look after it if we can find a php.net machine to put it on at some =
point. For now, the test install is updating each branch from SVN and =
reindexing once every two hours.
>=20
> Any comments?

Looks great, and much nicer. If you feel pb11[1] could handle it, then =
we could dedicate this box to OpenGrok (as grok.php.net?).

Regards,
Philip

[1] http://wiki.php.net/systems/pb11