Re: Test OpenGrok installation (LXR replacement?)

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. > > 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 > > 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. > > 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