> > I have created a new package called Freenet.search which I have begun to > > populate with the classes required for a "fuzzy" searching mechanism > > which will allow "yahoo" or "altavista" style "x and y not z" style > > queries > Well, wait a minute - did we actually come to any consensus on how search > was going to be carried out? There were a whole bunch of different ideas > floating around.
Grrr, people are either complaining that we talk too much about things, or don't talk enough. I suggested this a while ago, and it met with approval from the other core developers from what I recall (not to say it is flawless, but it is a framework upon which we can build). There were a number of ideas floating about, but all lacked a solid proposal for routing the searches, which is what I am now providing. I don't claim that this is the be-all-and-end-all of searching, but I feel that if someone doesn't get their arse in gear and code something then we will never get anywhere with it, and that someone may as well be me. Having a solid proposal, so that others can compare their proposals to it, highlighting advantages and disadvantages, is much more constructive then everyone just throwing their own proposals into the mix without regard to what has already been suggested. > Also, it seems like it would be more straightforward to implement the fuzzy > operators using static class methods Sure, if you are happy to implement it in a non-object-orientated manner - but we are using an OOP language, so we should really use it correctly. Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
