In case others might be interested and appreciating a bit of help recalling what the search feature's development status is at the moment, this email spawned from a thread in June 2012, here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg12921.html > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Chris Cargile <follybeach...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> ** >> I have been facing some of the installation/configuration/CLI issues >> Jessy mentions and agree the documentation could call out a bit more >> explicitly the proper steps but all the same good progress is being made! >> >> I'm hoping to complete the same 'create new mailing lists' step that >> Jessy pointed to >> http://packages.python.org/mailman/src/mailman/commands/docs/create.html, >> but I did not install via the python-installation procedure.. rather, I >> completed the Ubuntu tutorial located here: >> https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/mailman.html >> >> A mailman instance is successfully running, but this installation has >> left me without (as far as I can find) certain bin/ commands to be run in >> the interpreter, including mailman (as in, e g: 'mailman info'). I am >> wondering if there is a simple way to access the functionality described in >> the python docs pages, such that importing the various zope,etc modules >> will work in the CLI, without rebuilding mailman from scratch (using the >> python build-out procedure) >> >> I hope I can make this work, but seeing as how my end-goal is to better >> learn the basics of a programming language that is probably better-position >> for future viability (-->Python) than ones I'd taken up previously (ie: >> php), in addition to developing for the mailman utility, I will remain in a >> good position either way :) >> >> - my end-goal with this endeavor is the create a script that accepts >> mlist as the argument and generates a separate file for each email >> (pickle?) in the list archive. Achieving this will allow me to more easily >> create the search interface I'm after which I'm hoping will become a >> proof-of-concept implementation for the "search engine for archives" >> to-do list feature <http://list.org/todo.html>. >> >> As I interpret this goal, another way of saying this I think is: "it >> would be great if list administrators could drop-in a module to deploy an >> html form-search interface that indexes previous archives, in addition to >> allowing mail-archive.com to archive future messages to the list." >> > > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
