Lucene.Net 1.4.0 Beta build-001

Lucene.Net 1.4.0 Beta build-001 is ready

"...Lucene.net.1.4.beta-001-03Nov04.src.zip is now available. This is the first "beta" release where all the NUnit test are now passing except for the 'remote' test (i.e.: those test Lucene over HTTP) and that's because I have not got the chance to set it up to do the test. That is, out of 159 test, 7 are failing -- the remote test are failing due to setup issues.

You can get a copy here: http://www.aroush.net/dotLucene/lucene.net.1.4.beta-001-03Nov04.src.zip ..."

Cool... Nice to see this moving forward...

Also in the SourceForge forums I saw a post about on a C# project that is a web spider for Lucene.Net (so might work as a good how-to for Lucene.Net too).

Search Engine Spider for Lucene

"I started with the cspider application which can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64424&package_id=106757

I added some code to build a basic Lucene search index, and currently this code also puts a copy of the text from a page into the Lucene files for the highlighter application to use on the search results page. This application seems to work well for sites with up to about 1000 pages, after that, the Lucene indexes will grow too large to support practical in site searches, and additional optimization would be required.

Additionally I added the ability for the threads to use windows authentication, I have been thinking of a way to let them use forms based authentication, but have not hacked that feature as of yet...."