At 2:29 PM -0500 11/29/99, Rajendra Inamdar wrote:
>interest, I will be happy to post a patch. (Source baseline is
>htdig-3.1.3)
I think I can speak for everyone when I say we'd love a patch. See
below for a bit more detail. As far as htdig-3.1.x is concerned,
patches are generally only limited to bug fixes, so I'd say it's
probably not going in.
As far as htdig-3.2.0b1 is concerned, we'll have to vote after seeing
the patch, but if the code is reasonably good, I'd personally give
both features +1.
> With the first approach, database sizes can become large, resulting
> in slower searches. The second approach probably will have problems
> with sorting and pagination.
I'm not entirely sure which is necessarily faster. Granted, for many
people the current approach of merging multiple DB together wastes
tons of disk space since they end up with the separate databases AND
the merged one. But this approach requires fewer database accesses.
> In a way, it is similar to the second approach above, except that
> the merging of results happens within htsearch itself. Since the
> merged result list can be sorted and paginated, it avoids problems
> with a wrapper script.
>
> One potential downside is, there may be more (database) files
> open during the search. The modified htsearch seems to be working
> satisfactorily.
True, but it's also a bit slower since it has to perform the same
word lookup multiple times. Nevertheless, I think this would be
greatly appreciated (and often requested). As I said, if it looks
good, I'll give it a +1 for 3.2.0b1.
> Implemented support for NNTP protocol to index and search newsgroup
> articles. With this feature, news:// urls are treated similar to
I'll have to see how this is done against 3.1.x. I'd love to see
support for this in 3.2.x, so if it looks like we can put your
protocol support into a Transfer.cc subclass fairly easily, then I
definitely give it a +1 for 3.2.0b1.
-Geoff
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