Has anyone come across swish-e?

I've been a user of swish-e for many years. It's used on my desktop so has no external exposure - I hope.

It's not had an update since April 2009 - version 2.4.7. It's never been in slackBuilds.org. It's web page has been archived. The last entry in the E-mail Discussion List was from 2008. So no longer supported and probably nobody else uses swish-e except me. I find it useful.

The zlib (1.2.11) update on Slackware stable broke swish-e. Zlib introduced a new function called uncompress2 which conflicted with the swish-e internal uncompress2. I was heartbroken.

It was a simple fix to swish-e to rename it's internal uncompress2 to uncompressS. So I've now got swish-e back up and running.

Not sure how to move forward -

1. stick with swish-e and fix as and when it needs fixing
2. move on to something similar that is supported.

Originally Posted by aikempshall Not sure how to move forward - stick with swish-e and fix as and when it needs fixing move on to something similar that is supported.

I cannot help you regarding that question but maybe that page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Fulltext_search_engines could be of any help if you are looking for alternatives to SWISH-E.

Perhaps you can also make a patch for this problem. Other SWISH-E users (whatever this program is) might find it helpful too.

This might be something to check out?

http://swishplusplus.sourceforge.net/

^ Actually SWISH++ doesn't seem to be more maintained than Swish-e.
According to https://sourceforge.net/projects/swi...swishplusplus/, last update was on 2008-01-25.
But maybe there is no uncompress2 conflict with that version, I don't know...

Have found a "later" version of swish-e on github from 2016. I think it was set up to address a memory fault in swish-e. Though I didn't suffer from the memory fault on my desktop it did occur consistently when I was running in virtualbox.

I did drop an email to the person that set up swish-e on github, but have had no reply.

I've cloned swish-e locally. I could push my patch up to github, though I doubt it will get very far if no one's maintaining it. I could fork.

^ https://github.com/uddhab/swish-e ?

Practically the definition of OT....

Has anyone come across swish-e?

I'm old enough where I laughed reading that.

Originally Posted by Richard Cranium Practically the definition of OT.... I'm old enough where I laughed reading that.

This reply is a bit too cryptic for me!

I'm having trouble reaching the github address for swish-e with a browser. Could l0f4r0 post a git-cloneable address, please. I have a weak spot for snapshots from old, abandoned projects. Or any sort of link/attachment to the sources for swish-e.

Originally Posted by gnashley I'm having trouble reaching the github address for swish-e with a browser. Could l0f4r0 post a git-cloneable address, please. I have a weak spot for snapshots from old, abandoned projects. Or any sort of link/attachment to the sources for swish-e.

For you to clone with HTTPS: https://github.com/uddhab/swish-e.git
But please note that I don't know anything about SWISH-E (I was just trying to determine the "later version of swish-e on github from 2016" that aikempshall was speaking about) so I cannot be sure this address is reliable and is the most relevant starting point...

I cloned mine using

git clone  https://github.com/uddhab/swish-e.git uddhab