I am surprised to see ht://Dig is not yet a part of Linux Mandrake
7.2beta or cooker...
ht://Dig is known to be probably the best free search engine ; its
indexer is now a part of the GNU project ; there has been several papers
about ht://Dig on many magazines ; the product is *very* stable and
mature ; even MandrakeSoft use it for his web site ;-) !
This tool is now considered as a basic tool, such as Apache, MySQL,
Squid and so on !...
Thus, KDE 2 propose to use it for the search of his
documentation. Isn't it the time to add ht://Dig in 7.2beta and cooker
now ?
If so, I suggest also :
-- you add the accent patch to manage fuzzy searching on accented
caracters (everyday users of ht://Dig know how important it is).
For the accent patch see :
<ftp://sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us//htdig-patches/3.1.5/accents.5>
-- Linux-Mandrake also should have a better integration of ht://Dig
(links with dictionnaries, better integration with Apache,
external parsers (conv_doc.pl, catdoc and so on),
and so on (I can discribe precisaly if you
intend to do it)).
-- Last ht://Dig Mandrake RPM package also have some problem to work :
I suggest to see the problem of the sorting process when we use accented
caracters. See : http://www.htdig.org/mail/2000/05/0242.html
Of course, in next Mandrake release, ht://Dig even should be
automatically installed if KDE 2 package is chosen in the install
process.
I tested the search tool in KDE 2 : it works great ! Just try it !
May be it should be adapted simply to other window managers (it's a web
based application).
It can provide a way for MandrakeSoft to offer a simple tool for
searching the documentation ! And with very little coding...
Charles N�pote.
