Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jan 2007 15:11 UTC, submitted by Torsten Rahn
"A number of search engines are available for the Gnome and KDE desktop environments, many based around the open source Lucene search engine. It would be tremendous if we could adopt one of these search engines for the Gnome platform, so we can provide the type of integrated search experience for our users that they really need, irrespective of which distort they are using. So to help in this assessment we have carried out a comparison of four different Unix based indexers [.pdf]."
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they even rejected aRts, even tough it was plain C
aRts is written in C++, not plain C
had a gnome-lib dependency
It didn't unless you you are referring to using glib to some extend, however I think it had a reduced copy if it inside its own source tree.