STATUS of ht://Dig branch 3-2-x
RELEASES:
3.2.0b3: Release date unscheduled: Unfrozen Tree.
3.2.0b2: Released: 11 Apr 2000.
3.2.0b1: Released: 4 Feb 2000.
SHOWSTOPPERS:
* Odd behavior with $(MODIFIED) and scores not working with
wordlist_compress set but work fine without wordlist_compress.
(the date is definitely stored correctly, even with compression on
so this must be some sort of weird htsearch bug)
KNOWN BUGS:
* URL.cc tries to parse malformed URLs (which causes further problems)
(It should probably just set everything to empty) This relates to
PR#348.
* Not all htsearch input parameters are handled properly: PR#648.
* If exact isn't specified in the search_algorithms, $(WORDS) is not set
correctly: PR#650. (The documentation for 3.2.0b1 is updated, but can
we fix this?)
* META descriptions are somehow added to the database as FLAG_TITLE,
not FLAG_DESCRIPTION. (PR#859)
* If external converters have NULs in output, ExternalParser.cc will
mangle the data. Could be a problem when "chaining" parsers, e.g. if
an intermediate output is application/pdf.
PENDING PATCHES (available but need work):
* Forward-Porting of NNTP code.
* Additional support for Win32.
PENDING FEATURES:
* Make URL and Server blocks match documentation--i.e. change config
lookups in htdig to work as suggested. Many already work this way.
* Field-restricted searching
* Date-restricted searching
* Return all results
* Duplicate document detection while indexing
* Method "exact" for phrase-searching on the entire query
* Handle noindex_start & noindex_end as string lists
* Handle local_urls through file:// handler, for mime.types support
* Handle directory redirects in RetrieveLocal
* Handle directory listings in file:// handler
TESTING:
* httools programs:
(htload a test file, check a few characteristics, htdump and compare)
* Turn on URL parser test as part of test suite.
* htsearch phrase support tests
DOCUMENTATION:
* Update cf_* pages to mention new config parser (i.e. URL-dependent config)
* Add thorough documentation on htsearch restrict/exclude behavior
(including | and regex).
* Split attrs.html into categories for faster loading.
* require.html is not updated to list new features and disk space
requirements of 3.2.x (e.g. phrase searching, regex matching,
external parsers and transport methods, database compression.)
* TODO.html has not been updated for current TODO list and completions.
* Update documentation to be *very* explicit about the new
htmerge/htpurge distrinction.
OTHER ISSUES:
* Can htsearch actually search while an index is being created?
(Does this work with Loic's new database code?)
* We should do a security audit.
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