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Clarified that the current supported version of Whoosh is the 1.1.1+ …
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…series. Thanks to glesica for the report & original patch!
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toastdriven committed Nov 8, 2010
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* Faceting
* Stored (non-indexed) fields
* Highlighting
* Requires: pysolr (2.0.9+) & Solr 1.3+
* Requires: pysolr (2.0.13+) & Solr 1.3+

Whoosh
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* Term Boosting
* Stored (non-indexed) fields
* Highlighting
* Requires: whoosh (0.3.15+)
* Requires: whoosh (1.1.1+)

Xapian
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Whoosh
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Official Download Location: http://whoosh.ca/
Official Download Location: http://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh/

Whoosh is pure Python, so it's a great option for getting started quickly and
for development, though it does work for small scale live deployments. With the
0.3.1+ releases, Whoosh has become much more performant, stable and better
tested. The current recommended version is 0.3.15+. You can install via PyPI_
using::
for development, though it does work for small scale live deployments. The
current recommended version is 1.3.1+. You can install via PyPI_ using::

sudo easy_install whoosh
# ... or ...
sudo pip install whoosh

Note that, while capable otherwise, the Whoosh backend does not currently
support "More Like This" or faceting.
support "More Like This" or faceting. Support for these features has recently
been added to Whoosh itself & may be present in a future release.

.. _PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Whoosh/

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