Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-22 Thread Stas Bekman
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote: ...the perl.apache.org search facility * Where is it? (doing a Find on the front page doesn't show it) At the bottom of all guide pages. How funny--I'd never even noticed it! I see that it's using 'Swish-E'

Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stas Bekman wrote: Hold on, at this very moment a few mod_perl fellas are working on having a good search engine for the guide. Just give it some more time, I'm trying to bring the best so it'll take a while... I'm glad you brought this up again. Since I mentioned I'd be happy to host

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
BTW: Your email client is broken and not wrapping words. On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Hold on, at this very moment a few mod_perl fellas are working on having a good search engine for the guide. Just give it some more time, I'm trying to bring the best so

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jay J
Jeremy Howard wrote: I'm glad you brought this up again. Since I mentioned I'd be happy to host such a thing, and asked for suggestions, I've got a total of one (from Stas--thanks!). That suggestion was to use ht://dig http://www.htdig.org/. Has anyone got a search engine up and running

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Jeremy Howard wrote: I'm glad you brought this up again. Since I mentioned I'd be happy to host such a thing, and asked for suggestions, I've got a total of one (from Stas--thanks!). That suggestion was to use ht://dig http://www.htdig.org/. Has anyone got a search engine up and running

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
BTW: Your email client is broken and not wrapping words. I know--sorry. I'm fixing that this week. I'm just going through the RFCs to see exactly how to implement this right... (The email client is a web-based thing I've written in mod_perl--of course ;-) I just wrote a very simple SQL

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote: I just wrote a very simple SQL based engine - so I would say I'm happy with that. It's fast and it's all in perl. I could very simply rip out the search parts of the code for someone to play with if they wanted to. Sounds good. Personally, I'd

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Robin Berjon
At 11:19 17/05/2000 -0500, Jeremy Howard wrote: Your word highlighting statement is, I suspect, controversial. On the other hand, converting to docbook is unlikely to meet much resistance from users--as long as Stas doesn't mind maintaining it!... To get the best of both worlds, why not simply

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: At 11:19 17/05/2000 -0500, Jeremy Howard wrote: Your word highlighting statement is, I suspect, controversial. On the other hand, converting to docbook is unlikely to meet much resistance from users--as long as Stas doesn't mind maintaining it!...

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Perrin Harkins
I know I'm late to this party, but I thought I'd point out a couple of options: - The Search::InvertedIndex module on CPAN (uses dbm files, I think). - The DBIx::TextIndex module on CPAN (uses MySQL). - The WAIT module on CPAN (uses dbm files). - Glimpse: http://webglimpse.org/. - Swish++:

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
...the perl.apache.org search facility * Where is it? (doing a Find on the front page doesn't show it) At the bottom of all guide pages. How funny--I'd never even noticed it! I see that it's using 'Swish-E' http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/. Stas--did you get that up and