Subject: Re: the Search system

From: [email-masked] (J.H.M.Dassen)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:00:59 +0200 (MDT)

Hi Susan,

you're keeping me quite busy today :-)

> I just found the Debian search system on http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html.
> This seems to me like a big step forward, and am sorry I didn't see it 
> before.  Just yesterday I remarked to someone (for whom I had answered a 
> user-question by specifying the appropriate HOWTO) that the HOWTO's 
> desperately needed a search interface.
> 
> Questions and comments:
> 1.  In the line "Files in this directory", what does the 
>     word 'this' refer to?

The root directory of the web pages directory structure.

> 2.  Would it be possible (i.e., would the motivation/pain ratio exceed 1)
>     to add the HOWTO's to the list of indexed files,

Hmmm... I'm extracting /usr/info already... I'll put it on the todo list.

>     and then automate the
>     rebuild of the glimpse index as new packages appear for doc-linux?

The glimpse index is rebuilt daily.

> 3.  Going further, would it possible (same as above) to simply add all 
>     of /usr/doc and all of /usr/info to the list of indexed files?  

Hmm... doable... Also http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/info2www 
will hopefully work again someday soon.

>     If so, 
>     the text above the search engine form could be greatly streamlined.
> 
> 4.  Comment:  it would be nice to put the selectable directories in a
>     <SELECT><OPTION> ....</SELECT> grouping, where the default was ALL.

It's autogenerated; I don't want to mess with it right now.

Greetings,
Ray
-- 
POPULATION EXPLOSION  Unique in human experience, an event which happened 
yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow.  
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

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From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:39:25 -0400

Questions and comments:

2.  Would it be possible (i.e., would the motivation/pain ratio exceed 1)
    to add the HOWTO's to the list of indexed files, and then automate the
    rebuild of the glimpse index as new packages appear for doc-linux?

3.  Going further, would it possible (same as above) to simply add all 
    of /usr/doc and all of /usr/info to the list of indexed files?  If so, 
    the text above the search engine form could be greatly streamlined.

I would have been happy to send this directly to the author of the 
ghindex.html, but I don't know who that is.  It might be useful to add
a mailto: at the bottom of the page.

Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
[email-masked]