The next b8 release (0.5) will be a major one with major changes. Oliver Lillie sent me a basic PHP 5 port of b8, I used his code as the base for b8 0.5. Almost all parts have been completely rewritten, only the math remains untouched.
The most significant changes are:
- No PHP 4 compatibility anymore. Much cleaner code base with less hacks.
- Completely reworked storage model. The SQL performance increased dramatically, the Berkeley DB performance remains as fast as it always has been.
- Better lexer which can also handle non-latin1 texts in a nice way, so that e.g. Cyrillic or Chinese texts can be classified more performant. This lexer has also been back-ported to the 0.4.x branch of b8. It will work better than b8 0.4.4's lexer, but be aware that PHP 4 won't handle Unicode correctly.
- No config files anymore, multiple instances of b8 can be now created in the same script with different configuration, databases and no problems.
- No spooky administration interface anymore that needs an SQL database, even if Berkeley DB is used (anybody who actually used this?! I never did ;-).
- No "install" scripts and routines and a less end-user compatible
documentation. Anybody integrating b8 in his homepage won't be an end-user, will he?