On Saturday 29 May 2004 23:39, Lauri Watts wrote: > One of the other things I've looked at for alternatives is quite > interesting: > > Daniel Naber (who also wrote the search routine on docs.kde.org) has a > rather nifty little search engine > (http://www.danielnaber.de/desktopdig/) ?that is python based,
Actually you'll always run into trouble using an external tool. Command line options might change, it's difficult to show feedback during indexing etc -- I don't think those problems are specific to htdig. The right solution is to use an API that cares about the indexing stuff, like Lucene (written in Java). Luckily, there's a C++ version of Lucene available (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene/). It would also be useful for other KDE programs (e.g. KMail fulltext indexing). I can help with the (C)Lucene stuff if someone does the other stuff (Makefile stuff, GUI, ...). This would also be an interesting project for Akademy. I'm CC'ing Stephan, I think he once did something in the search area of KHelpcenter. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de
