Hi,

OpenFTS team is glad to announce a pre-alpha release of
OpenFTS perl version, which is available for testing from
openfts.sourceforge.net. We've created openfts-general
mailing list for general discussion. Details is available at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openfts-general
We need your feedback !

We deprecated using contrib/intarray module and switched to
contrib/tsearch module. This version works only with 7.2 release
of PostgreSQL and later.

Also, we just posted generic perl interface to Snowball stemmers
(sbowball.sourceforge.net), which was developed primarly for
use as OpenFTS add-on. We'll announce it's availability after
Martin Porter accepts the module.

Below is the full list of changes:

        Add cygwin compatibility !
        Modify pgsql module to use in contrib directory
        Remove support working without intarray
        Change pgsql's intarray to tsearch module, this modifications
                requre some interface changes:
                1. dictionary must have method lemms, lemmsid now unused
                2. is_stoplemm is unused, instead use is_stoplexem
        Add optional method drop to dictionaries
        Add dropindex for remove OpenFTS instance
        Done changes of OpenFTS tables and corresponding relor/relkov function
        Some interface change (use_index_array deprecated,
                instead txtidx_field - mandated option)
        All scripts in examples/ are adapted for changes


	Regards,
		Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
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Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:36:02 +0300 (GMT)
Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
pre-alpha release of OpenFTS (perl version) is available for testing