Awasu 2.0.2.alpha1

IMPORTANT: This is an alpha release. Some features are not complete and you will find bugs!

You must be running 2.0.1. Installation is straight-forward:

• Read the release notes below first!
• Backup your Awasu installation directory. This is critical - there may not necessarily be an upgrade path from this alpha to subsequent ones. It is recommended that you start from a 2.0.1 installation and upgrade that to each alpha each time they are released.
• Unpack one (!) of the following zips on top of your existing installation:
  • Personal Edition (NT/2K/XP)
  • Advanced Edition (NT/2K/XP)
  • Personal Edition (98/Me)
  • Advanced Edition (98/Me)
• Copy the DefaultSearchResults.template from the $/Resources/Search Result Templates to your user's sub-directory e.g.

      C:\Program Files\Awasu\Resources\Search Result Templates\DefaultSearchResults.template
          => C:\Program Files\Awasu\Users\YOUR-NAME\Search Result Templates
  

• Run ArchiveMaintenance.exe to build the search index for all the content you have already.

This version is a lot rougher than I would normally like to release, even for an alpha, but the vagaries of my schedule over the next few weeks means that it's better to push something out earlier rather than later. Some of the core code is going to be rewritten but this at least gives people the chance to give the underlying search engine a workout.

Release notes

• The search facility is at the same place (Tools|Find) although you will find it's a tad quicker now :-) Search query syntax is described here Very little functionality right now - the ability to restrict searches by date, smarter indexing of content, handling of item revisions are all coming soon...
  
  
• The search query parser is a little flaky and can sometimes crash Awasu if it's given anything more complicated than a few simple words. If you have problems with this, please send me the query string.
  
  
• The search engine currently does not do any stemming. That is, if you search for "quickly", it will not find "quick", "quicker", "quickest" or any other variations. Some basic stopping is done e.g. simple words such as "the" and "and" are not indexed and are also removed from queries.
  
  
• You may find that Awasu refuses to start because of problems opening the search index. If this happens, let us know and rebuild the index (using ArchiveMaintenance.exe).