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 hos

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 be

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 . > > Has anyone got a search engine up and ru

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 . > > Has anyone got a search engine up and ru

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 S

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,

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 sim

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++: http:/

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' . Stas--did you get that up a

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'