Xapian discuss - Nov 2009 - Can Omega be used as an OpenSearch engine for Windows Federated Search?

I run a linux file server.  However, Win7 clients complain that it
lacks a search function.  So I hope that I can install xapian-omega on
the server, and integrate that with Win7.

It seems that MS has for once tried to make this easy.  It is a
two-step process.  The server needs to run an OpenSearch 1.1
web-service.  And the client needs to register to the service by
reading an osdx-file, which is a small, static xml-file that describes
the web-service.

MS has docs here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd742958%28VS.85%29.aspx

Now, Omega has an OpenSearch 1.0 template.  But the following comment
isn't encouraging: "The opensearch template isn't really finished -
it
was more a quick hack to see how fiddly it would be."
(http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2006-January/000288.html).
 That mail is three years old, and nothing much seems to have happened
since then.

If anyone has tried something like this, please share your experiences
(negative/positive).


Thanks,

Rune
-- 
The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people,
but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.
		-- Dr. David Butler

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:56:25AM +0100, Rune Kock
wrote:
> Now, Omega has an OpenSearch 1.0 template.  But the following comment
> isn't encouraging: "The opensearch template isn't really
finished - it
> was more a quick hack to see how fiddly it would be."
>
(http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2006-January/000288.html).
>  That mail is three years old, and nothing much seems to have happened
> since then.
Nothing much has happened since then because no problems with the
OpenSearch template have been reported since those I fixed back then.  It's
hard for me to know if that's because nobody uses it or it is free of
obvious problems.

If OpenSearch 1.1 is incompatible, it would be good to know what needs
changing for it.

Cheers,
    Olly