note 80273 added to function.muscat-setup-net

Muscat 3.6 was indeed a search engine, but a proprietary one - it's always seemed odd to me that a wrapper for it was ever included in PHP. Muscat 3.6 was written in BCPL, which isn't exactly a mainstream language these days so the company needed a modern replacement, and OpenMuscat was written from scratch in C++, and released under the GPL. The plan was to use the engine in the company's shrink-wrap and bespoke projects, and also offer a commercial licence to the library for those not wanting to use the GPL, but the parent company went under in the dot-com crash. Xapian (http://www.xapian.org/) is the living open source descendant of OpenMuscat, and has PHP bindings. ---- Server IP: 87.124.64.96 Probable Submitter: 82.42.96.185 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.muscat-setup-net.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/80273 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80273 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/80273 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php