According to Geoff Hutchison: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > 1. better configure test for regex problems on BSDi > > I don't know if this will ever become "automatic," but it looks like we > can relatively easily have a --with-rx flag to the configure script which > will bypass the included regex code (and use the rx code instead). > > Does this seem like a reasonable workaround?
That's reasonable to me. But back in October, you had suggested an automatic test for the machine triplet "*-*-bsdi*". Have you given up on that idea? It seems it's only been BSDI systems that have had problems with the bundled GNU regex code. I think manual overrides with --with-... options are a good idea, but an automatic test for setting the default would be handy and may cut down the number of questions on the list. > > 2. way to override "no server" problem > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Since 3.1.5, if htdig fails to connect to a server, it sets the "dead server" flag and won't try again to contact that server, giving instead a bunch of "no server" errors. In most cases, that's the best thing to do, but a number of users expressed a preference for the old way, or something more fail-safe like waiting a while and trying that server again later. > > 4. a "match all documents" mechanism in htsearch > > This IMHO, is no small feat unless you hack htsearch to totally bypass the > parser and htfuzzy phases for some specific query. (As in, if the query is > just '*' and nothing else, it will return all documents and then > restrict, exclude, etc. But something like 'foo and * not bar" is subject > to the normal parsing.) > > Again, if this seems like a reasonable workaround, I can write this. It's certainly reasonable for the purpose in mind (the what's new facility). Thanks! -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
