Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of MG4J - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
Your project has been approved and you should have received an automated
welcoming message. Please replace the COPYING file by the latest version off
the GPL 2, which you can find in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt (the
difference with the one you have is the address of the FSF which has changed)

Regards,
Jaime

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:59:04PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
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> Sebastiano Vigna <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: MG4J
> System name: mg4j
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a collaborative effort aimed at 
> providing a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression 
> techniques; as a by-product, it offers several general-purpose optimised 
> classes, including fast &amp; compact mutable strings, bit-level I/O, 
> (possibly signed) minimal perfect hashing, etc.
> 
> Generating full-text inverted indices for very large sets of documents
> (say, beyond dozens of millions) is a nontrivial task. MG4J tries to make the 
> techniques described in the book Managing Gigabytes, by Ian    Witten, 
> Alistair Moffat and Timothy Bell, accessible without having to deal with 
> bit-level operations in a clean, object-oriented environment.
> 
> You can find APIs, etc. at http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/MG4J/
> 
> Other Software Required:
> The COLT distribution (http://tilde-hoschek.home.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/)
> fastUtil (http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fastUtil/)
>