STATUS of ht://Dig branch 3-2-x
RELEASES:
3.2.0b3: Released: Jan 2001. (?)
3.2.0b2: Released: 11 Apr 2000.
3.2.0b1: Released: 4 Feb 2000.
SHOWSTOPPERS:
* HtRegex seems to bail out with patterns that are too long, at least
on some platforms. Errors are reported, though the calling code must be
careful to check for them.
Some workaround (e.g. HtRegexList ?) is desirable.
KNOWN BUGS:
* 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)
* Not all htsearch input parameters are handled properly: PR#648. Use a
consistant mapping of input -> config -> template for all inputs where
it makes sense to do so (everything but "config" and "words"?).
* 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)
PENDING PATCHES (available but need work):
* Additional support for Win32.
* Date-restricted searching (maybe 1/2 done).
* Memory improvements to htmerge. (Backed out b/c htword API changed.)
* MySQL patches to 3.1.x to be forward-ported and cleaned up.
(Should really only attempt to use SQL for doc_db and related, not word_db)
NEEDED FEATURES:
* Field-restricted searching.
* Return all URLs.
* Handle noindex_start & noindex_end as string lists.
* Handle local_urls through file:// handler, for mime.types support.
* Handle directory redirects in RetrieveLocal.
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
* Tests for new config file parser
* Duplicate document detection while indexing
* Major revisions to ExternalParser.cc, including fork/exec instead of popen,
argument handling for parser/converter, allowing binary output from an
external converter.
* ExternalTransport needs testing of changes similar to ExternalParser.
DOCUMENTATION:
* List of supported platforms/compilers is ancient.
* Add thorough documentation on htsearch restrict/exclude behavior
(including '|' and regex).
* Need a list of "related projects" inc. mifluz, ht://Check, ConfigDig, etc.
(should this include projects like KDevelop and WWWWoffle that use internally?)
* Document all of htsearch's mappings of input parameters to config attributes
to template variables. (Relates to PR#648.) Also make sure these config
attributes are all documented in defaults.cc, even if they're only set by
input parameters and never in the config file.
* 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.
OTHER ISSUES:
* Can htsearch actually search while an index is being created?
(Does Loic's new database code make this work?)
* The code needs a security audit, esp. htsearch
* URL.cc tries to parse malformed URLs (which causes further problems)
(It should probably just set everything to empty) This relates to
PR#348.
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