According to Geoff Hutchison:
> At 11:55 AM -0400 4/28/99, Torsten Neuer wrote:
> >Ht://Dig is a tool for searching a web-site - and it should stay that way.
>
> I would agree wholeheartedly. Someone on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list said it
> best when they said they liked how ht://Dig was in the spirit of most
> traditional UNIX tools--flexible yet oriented towards a specific task.
In that spirit, it would be interesting to hear from writers of search
wrappers and other such tools if there are simple improvements to
htsearch or the rest of the htdig suite that would make life easier.
I know that templates give you a great deal of flexibility in search
output formats, but is there anything that's missing? E.g. other output
variables? How about some other input options? Command line handling?
Any suggestions that would make these programs better tools or building
blocks would be welcome. Volunteers to implement these changes would
be even more welcome! :-)
> There are a *lot* of things that would be nice to link in during searching
> or digging. There's libwww, gnome-http, a UTF-8/Unicode library, xpdf, an
> XML parser... I've been thinking about all this nice code out there that
> would help ht://Dig. My conclusion has been to push for *some* inclusion
> (e.g. glibc regex, strptime, mktime) while going towards more things like
> external parsers.
Yes, I agree. Some things, like parsing PDFs via pdftotext, work just
fine as external parsers, and don't really need to be more tightly
integrated into htdig. Ideas like the external decoder handling would
make good additions to that. Other things may need to be an integral
part of htdig to work effectively.
Another contribution that would be very welcome would be periodically
profiling the execution of the code on a large database. As htdig
evolves, there are very likely new sources of inefficiency to weed out.
Knowing where we should focus our efforts in cleaning up and optimizing
code would help a lot.
--
Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
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