INSTALL: Note the advantages of Xapian 1.0.18+ and 1.1.4+

These versions provide greatly desired performance advantages for
notmuch.

Previously, theses details existed in an old NEWS entry, but most
users are unlikely to find those details there. Put them here where we
mention the Xapian dependency.
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Xapian is available from http://xapian.org Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config 1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ). when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
GMime 2.4 GMime 2.4
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