Greetings Joe, Thanks for your reply, and don't let my mood swings concern you too much :)
No, it isn't just the indexing speed, although that is part of it. Mainly, there don't seem to be enough people working on the package (coding, documentation). I'm not meaning to denigrate the great job that other people are doing in providing support (your patch repository, Jim's and others' answering of users' questions, Robert's packaging for Debian), but I feel overwhelmed by the amount of development needed to get 3.2.0 out. Recently, I looked at the web sites listed in our "users" database, and found that about half had switched to google. There are lots of other free search engines out there, and it's not clear to me that ht://Dig can (or should) compete. One of the big problems with free software is that we spend all of our time duplicating effort. (If developers of OpenOffice.org, Koffice and the Gnome office suite combined their resources, they may be able to make a good competitor for MS Office, but divided they can't, IMHO.) I'm perfectly happy to keep working on ht://Dig, but I am by nature a follower, and the project needs (among other things) a leader. If someone comes along and brings some enthusiasm, that will be great. That person need not be a programmer -- if someone wants to document all the new features that 3.2.0 has compared with 3.1.6, that would also be very inspiring. $0.02 Lachlan On Fri, 14 May 2004 07:25 am, Joe R. Jah wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote: > > > > My impression is that the ht://Dig project is basically dead :( > > The existing code is of course still functional > > You have been a great bulwark for htdig, specially recently. You > have brought 3.2 to the verge of release. How can you make such an > ominous pronouncement? It can't be just the indexing speed; is it? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht://Dig developer DownUnder (http://www.htdig.org) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
