Plucene

We have been working for some time on Twingle, a tool for finding information in your email. The original, server-based version of this used the Jakarta Lucene engine, through the Perl-Java bridge of Inline::Java

However, in order to fully develop our vision of the next version of Twingle, we needed more control over the fine nuances of searching through email. And, as the next phase of the Twingle development is to include a downloadable version of the software, we needed it to make it easier for people to install - when the lead developer gave up after 6 hours of trying to get it all working on his own machine at home we knew we had a problem!

For the last year we have employed renowned Perl guru Simon Cozens to work with us on Twingle, and as his final project we asked him to port Lucene to Perl.

And so, Kasei is proud to announce the release of Plucene - a Perl port of Lucene. As with much of the software produced by Kasei it is released as open source (In the past year Simon, Tony, Marty and Marc have released over 60 Perl modules).

We'd like to publicly thank Marc and Simon for all their hard work on Plucene, and wish Simon all the best on his future projects.