On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
> (now I've told you) what my real hope was... is that the database and
> htdig changes were already made and the search piece needed some help or
> something like that.
In some sense, yes. I have not done the database changes. But I was
desperately hoping someone would volunteer to help with the search piece.
The database isn't the only thing (obviously) for phrase searching. Since
most people are familiar with quotes, it seems like a reasonable indicator
of a phrase search. But then you have to worry about booleans and fuzzy
searching on phrases and rewriting things so quotes aren't tossed with
valid_punctuation, etc.
In short, I wasn't as interested in that side of it.
> I'm planning on using it on my own box here so I will probably submit some
> patches. If the phrase searching was a matter of sticking my nose in my
> computer screen for 8 hours I'd probably do that too... But I'd prefer
> not to have to reverse-engineer all the database code (It's one thing to
> patch one part of the code, it's a whole 'nother thing to have to learn
> the whole thing...)
As I said, I'm quite willing to do the database side. And you certainly
don't have to reverse-engineer anything. That's the whole purpose of the
list--if something's unclear, you ask questions and hopefully people can
help you out. :-)
> BTW, let me compliment whoever is responsible for the coding style...
> What I did dig through looked great. I think they even put the { in the
I've tried to keep my coding style to match Andrew's. I've been slowly
making some style changes, like more liberal use of comments. But Andrew
has also done a wonderful job in writing readable code.
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the htdig3-dev mailing list, send a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single word "unsubscribe" in
the SUBJECT of the message.
