Some of you have probably been looking for some sense of what features are planned for ht://Dig. Several features are certainly frequently requested (phrase searching anyone?). So I thought I'd share some ideas as to what will appear for ht://Dig during 1999. * New server: Thanks to Andrew Sherpbier, htdig.org is moving to a dedicated server. This will hopefully allow for a variety of new services, including a contributed files section for dictionaries, scripts and documentation. * Database merging: I'm putting the finishing touches on code to merge multiple databases. Hopefully by sometime next week, I'll test it out and send out a patch. * Bugs: We're knocking 'em off, one by one. Hopefully we'll get close to "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" :-) More seriously, I think we should expect to never see ht://Dig coredump again. Period. * Better results: I hope most people see more accurate search results with version 3.1.0b3. I think we can get some factors adjusted and add some code to improve results even more. After all, how many people go to 2 pages of results? * Scalability: Lots of people are asking about how well ht://Dig scales. Right now I know of some users around 500,00-600,000 documents. Currently, that's causing some scalability problems beyond RAM, disk space and time. Hopefully we can eliminate most of these problems. * Usability: Some people have asked for simplified interfaces. I could see a great CGI here--a web interface that would set various config options, allow you to add URLs to a file for start_urls, etc. -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
