According to Robert Marchand: > That must be my bad english :-(. You were right the first time. I did not > test the pre-release versions. I was just saying I was not sure I would > have seen the problem. I understand your frustration but there is also a > dilemna about testing this kind of software: you want to be as close as > possible as the real case but you certainly don't want to disturb the > people using it. As bad as it is sometimes I find no other way than "try" > on the live server. And I can't justify doing that with a pre-release > version. But I've taken note! I'll try to be more active in supporting > free (or GNU) software because I find the support far better than for some > paid software. Also the quality is often very good.
What I often do to test new changes to htsearch on my live server is set up a /cgi-bin/htsearch2 program, and call it from an alternate search form, sometimes using the same config file as the production search form, and sometimes using a test config. It's completely non- disruptive, but at the same time gives me a good feel for how it works in a production environment. Testing alternate versions of htdig, htmerge, etc. is actually a bit trickier because then I need to set up alternate configs with separate database_dir settings and redig, so I don't clobber my live database. As long as the testing doesn't put too much extra load on the live server, though, that can work fine. Even testing the 3.2 betas on a live server is feasible in this way, as long as you're careful to use separate database and common directories. > You should be proud of Ht://Dig. Back when we choose it, we compared it > with other software costing thousand dollars and we found it as good. I'm > not in touch with search engine technology these days but I think Ht://Dig > is still a good choice. It does still seem to be a popular choice, and I haven't heard of any other open source that can do what ht://Dig does (although certain parts may exist in wget, curl, and other HTTP spiders). This is part of the frustration, though, in that lots of people are using it, but contributors are scarce. -- 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-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
