Great stuff! Personally I'd like it to have a different name (it need
not be py*). If I come up with suggestions will shoot you an email. :)
The search + relevance thing is the key challenge here I think, which
pushes the limits of the framework and leaves it to the developer. The
objective is not to simply get results which match a string, but to
sort them in a way that the user's question gets answered within first
few hits. This is a non-trivial problem to solve, specially when
looking for a "needle in a haystack" :)
-- Aditya
On Sep 7, 6:51 am, Julio Schwarzbeck <ju...@techfuel.net> wrote:
> Indeed, and happy to do it.
>
> On Sep 6, 6:20 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Will you make it open source?
>
> > On Sep 6, 7:58 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck <ju...@techfuel.net> wrote:
>
> > > Interesting Question :) - Well, since I am using both MySQL and
> > > Postgres, I have implemented Full-text searching for both paradigms,
> > > this is really more in the database side and it really relies on the
> > > indexing of the available data. This can indeed be an issue with non-
> > > RDBS and the fact that my experience is limited to traditional
> > > database model systems, Full text searching in PostgreSQL is based on
> > > the match operator @@ and in MySQL in the FULLTEXT() index function
> > > allowing me to do things like "SELECT * FROM questions WHERE MATCH
> > > (title,body) AGAINST ('search string');" for search, and as you may
> > > already realized, I am not using the DAL for this, unfortunately.
>
> > > For the above I have a small "temporary" wrapper class to mimic
> > > web2py's SQLRows objects and try to not deviate too much from the
> > > "standard", but search indeed has became a bit of a headache, I am
> > > definitely open for ideas, though,
>
> > > Thanks!
>
> > > Julio
>
> > > On Sep 6, 4:45 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > > really nice. Can you tell us how you implement search?
>
> > > > On Sep 6, 5:40 pm, Julio Schwarzbeck <ju...@techfuel.net> wrote:
>
> > > > > Pleased to inform the community that I finally had some time to
> > > > > heavily work on one of my web2py pets, pyStack is coming along quite
> > > > > nicely and it is being developed as we speak, pyStack is a SO
> > > > > "inspired" system developed in the best web framework available for
> > > > > Python nowadays :)
>
> > > > > pyStack aims to be a very SIMPLE version of SO, with all the fat
> > > > > trimmed down to the basic functionality, yet it'll contain all the
> > > > > expected features such as subscriptions, voting (including voting on
> > > > > comments), role-based and heavy administration regarding Q&A postings,
> > > > > the code will be open source of course and currently is at 60%-65%
> > > > > completed, I have a couple of screenshots on my blog (done in web2py
> > > > > also :) if you want to see something visual
>
> > > > >http://www.techfuel.net/zblog/blog/view/27
>
> > > > > Cheers,
>
> > > > > Julio
