[Koha-devel] Search Engine Changes : let's get some solr

[Chris Cormack]

On 15 November 2010 06:25, LAURENT Henri-Damien
<henridamien.laurent at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Le 11/11/2010 15:19, Ian Walls a écrit :
>> Ah, right, I'd forgotten about that switch, as it doesn't work with
>> authorities, and I can't do rebuild_zebra.pl <http://rebuild_zebra.pl>
>> -a -b -x -z in my crontab.
>>
>> So, the ISO2709 character limit is not actually an issue at all, then.
>>
> Well, actually, it is in koha.
> Since Koha gets iso2709 from a zebra search.
> If it Koha would take marcxml, it would be even slower to get search
> results with the Search.pm as it stands now... And let me know if you
> know a librarian who would like that.

Yep, there is utterly no doubt C4::Search needs a rewrite. This was a
goal of 3.4. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in my proposal, and we had
some volunteers to work on it.

I still think it is nessecary, but I do think it is better to do it in
a way that allows for a structure like
C4/Search.pm
C4/Search/Nutch.pm
C4/Search/Zebra.pm
C4/Search/Solr.pm

Or using searchengine or something else to achieve the same.

Chris