Angad Singh wrote: <snip> > Completely unrelated: how about adding "Did you mean" kind of > suggestions. User tries - "spkg install openoffce". Instead of the > usual, package not found, spkg could output a possible list of > suggestions - Did you mean openoffice? This can be implemented using > the Levenshtein word distance algorithm > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance). For invalid > names, just calculate the levenshtein distance of the input package > name with a list of all the packages and show few of the closest > matches.
IMMHO, would that not cause "some" substantial delay, considering the fact that number of packages are usually high? Don't flame if you have already worked on that :) -Amit -- Journal: http://amitksaha.wordpress.com ?-blog: http://twitter.com/amitsaha IRC: cornucopic on #scheme, #lisp, #math, #linux
