Flax

Flax is a project to develop an open source enterprise search engine application based on the Xapian search engine library, and the Xappy interface built on top of Xapian.

Download

You can now download a pre-release packaged version of Flax for Windows, Flax Basic. The installer is available on the right of this page ('Featured downloads').

Developers are welcome to check out our sources from SVN (see the "Source" tab).

The code is now in beta phase.

Developers

Flax is being developed by Lemur Consulting Ltd, but contributions from third parties are welcome.

Lemur Consulting also contribute to the development of Xapian, the search engine library used as the basis of Flax, and Xappy, the Python interface to Xapian used by Flax.

Mailing lists

There is a low traffic announcement mailing list, which you should subscribe to if you wish to be notified of new releases of Flax and of any critical issues found in the software. This is called Flax-Announce, and is a read-only list.

There is a mailing list for general discussion of Flax - this is called Flax-Discuss.

There is also an automated mailing list which tracks all changes made to the flax code, and all comments in the issue tracker. This is probably only of interest to developers working directly on the flax code: it is called Flax-Changes and is hosted by google groups. It is a read-only list.