[bt-devel] Last Windows Huzzah for tonight

[Chris Little]

Greg Hellings wrote:
>>> to use indexed search with Sword's engine, you need clucene as well, so that
>>> does not solve the problem at hand.
> 
> Personally I leave CLucene out of my SWORD builds because I don't want
> indexed search - I would much rather use the direct searches without
> someone's decision of what and how to index or not and save the
> install time, trouble and space.  A Bible is not enough text for me to
> be concerned with brute force search times overwhelming my need to
> maintain module-index cohesion and up-to-dateness.  Plus I move around
> from system to system and installation to installation often enough
> that spending the time to create the index is more hassle than its
> worth when the index will probably disappear in a very short time
> anyway.  However, I realize that I am very far from the center of the
> bell curve in such matters, by a VERY long margin!

On the other hand, as long as CLucene is enabled in the library, users 
have the option to use indexed search. If they don't want it, they can 
always opt not to build indexes and continue using brute-force search.

--Chris