Hi,
Reading the articles/comment on slashdot + browsing the huge
tarball, here is my conclusion: it sucks. Only the searcher is
available. The crawler/indexer is 100% proprietary and not for sale,
not for download, not for rent. They sell the database. You're free to
patch the searcher (bunch of horribly packaged perl scripts). Well
you're *maybe* free to patch it since it does not contain any
copyright notice. Browsing the sources of the searcher you find that
it's not even packaged as a module (no Makefile.PL) contains hardwired
absolute path names, uses the obsolete cgi-lib.pl library instead of
CGI.pm. Judge by yourself:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#---------------------------------------------
# Banner Controller
# -
# by Eric Ballweber
# (C)1997 DOSHS
# --------------------------------------------
# globals
use lib "/home/jugger/bin";
use lib "/home/jugger/bin/lib";
require "jugg_env.pl" || die "Can't open jugg_env.pl";
require "cgi-lib.pl" || die "Can't load cgi library";
&ReadParse;
# debug lines here -----------
# end debug lines -----------
# send page
open(INPUT, "/usr/htdocs/search/cgi-jugger/adbot60.tml");
@page=<INPUT>;
close(INPUT);
($sec) = localtime(time);
...
The tarball contains 600k of sources (the searcher) and 55Mb of
undocumented cryptic data files. There is not even a README file.
I think Juggernaut took the safest way to build a horrible
reputation :-) I honestly think there is *nothing* to learn from
juggernaut.
Cheers,
--
Loic Dachary
ECILA
100 av. du Gal Leclerc
93500 Pantin - France
Tel: 33 1 56 96 10 85
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.senga.org/
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