note 80273 deleted from function.muscat-setup-net by philip

Note Submitter: Olly Betts ---- 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.