David Powell wrote:
Brock Pytlik wrote:
I didn't look specifically at SQLite3, at least not that I remember.
Revamping search, as I understand it, is low on our priorities,
meaning I'm not going to be making any major changes before the next
release (and quite possibly after the next release, we've still got a
lot of features required). Our impression is that local search is a
rare operation since usually, an end user is searching for software
they don't already have.
I find that assessment a little strange, since ultimately people
aren't using computers to install software, they are using computers
to use software. Once the software they need is installed searches
will primarily be local searches. To state it differently, remote
searches represent a fixed cost, whereas local searches represent an
ongoing cost.
I agree remote searches are very important -- possibly more important
than local searches -- but that doesn't mean local searches are rare
or negligible.
Dave
Help me understand the use case for frequent local search that I'm not
seeing... Once the software is installed on your machine, why are you
searching for it? I can see doing this once in a great while because the
binary didn't get delivered into a directory that's in your path, and so
you have to figure out where the silly thing actually got placed. Since
I've been running OpenSolaris, I think I've done that a handful of
times. Other than that, I can't think of use cases for most of our users.
Thanks,
Brock
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