Duplicate plugins - FTS Xapian

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 31/08/2021 10:56 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Am Dienstag, dem 31.08.2021 um 10:33 +0300 schrieb Aki Tuomi:
> > 
> > > On 31/08/2021 00:11 Joan Moreau <jom at grosjo.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > There seems to be 2 plugins doing the same thins
> > > - https://github.com/slusarz/dovecot-fts-flatcurve/
> > > - https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ (mine)
> > > Both are in the doc of dovecot
> > > https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/fts/
> > > 
> > > I am currently working hard to push it to RPM package, and plugin
> > > is already approved by ArchLinux and Debian
> > > 
> > > Isn't there double work here ?
> > > Thanks
> > > JM
> > 
> > If you look closer, you can see they are not exactly duplicates.
> > Flatcurve works differently than your plugin.
> > 
> > Aki
> 
> Is there somewhere a direct comparison of them?
> I currenty use fts-xapian from Joan without problems.
> But what would be the advantages of fts-flatcurve over fts-xapian?

fts_flatcurve does only full word searching, although you can use fts_filters and fts_tokenizers settings to affect stemming and other matching to make it work with plurals and such.

Both plugins have their merits.

Aki