On Sun, 16 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:43:50 +1000
> From: Lachlan Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Joe R. Jah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Pessimism
>
> Greetings Joe,
>
> Thanks for your reply, and don't let my mood swings concern you too
> much :)
>
> No, it isn't just the indexing speed, although that is part of it.
> Mainly, there don't seem to be enough people working on the package
> (coding, documentation). I'm not meaning to denigrate the great job
> that other people are doing in providing support (your patch
> repository, Jim's and others' answering of users' questions, Robert's
> packaging for Debian), but I feel overwhelmed by the amount of
> development needed to get 3.2.0 out.
>
> Recently, I looked at the web sites listed in our "users" database,
> and found that about half had switched to google. There are lots of
> other free search engines out there, and it's not clear to me that
> ht://Dig can (or should) compete. One of the big problems with free
> software is that we spend all of our time duplicating effort. (If
> developers of OpenOffice.org, Koffice and the Gnome office suite
> combined their resources, they may be able to make a good competitor
> for MS Office, but divided they can't, IMHO.)
>
> I'm perfectly happy to keep working on ht://Dig, but I am by nature a
> follower, and the project needs (among other things) a leader. If
> someone comes along and brings some enthusiasm, that will be great.
> That person need not be a programmer -- if someone wants to document
> all the new features that 3.2.0 has compared with 3.1.6, that would
> also be very inspiring.
>
> $0.02
>
> Lachlan
I believe we need a meeting of htdig-members.
Regards,
Joe
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> > On Thu, 13 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> > >
> > > My impression is that the ht://Dig project is basically dead :(
> > > The existing code is of course still functional
> >
> > You have been a great bulwark for htdig, specially recently. You
> > have brought 3.2 to the verge of release. How can you make such an
> > ominous pronouncement? It can't be just the indexing speed; is it?
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