> > I've been thinking about what you said regarding search engines for
> > "debiandoc". As I understand it, this is to be a debian package, is it
> > not?
>
> At least Debian. I won't get upset if someone ports it to Red Hat, Slackware,
> *BSD*, or a Cray... :-)
Cray Linux. I've heard somebody is actually working on that!
> > What do you think of this idea?
>
> Thanks for the offer, but alas, it's not workable -- the index needs to be
> rebuilt for each system separately, since the set of documents is different
> on each system, and Debiandoc is supposed to support locally installed
> documentation as well.
>
> I will, however, make debiandoc and ferret work together, if it isn't
> too much work. From my experiments with glimpse a long time ago, it
> can index arbitrary directories or files, and outputs a list of filenames
> as the result of the search. If ferret can do that, then I'll add support
> for it in debiandoc.
It shouldn't be hard. Ferret indexes an arbitrary list of words against
an arbitrary text string. (The text string is usually a URL or a path
name, but it isn't limited to such.)
If you could add ferret to the "suggests" field, I'd appreciate it.
Brian
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P.S. I was joking about the Cray Linux thing. :-)
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