Richard Barrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > But the real problem is that no consensus has been reached on > committing Mailman to use of the HTdig search engine for archive > search. With posts to mailman-users and mailman-developers lists by > some subscribers that express negative views about HTdig, this > consensus is not likely to be reached. Also, I believe the main MM > developers are not keen on bundling HTdig with MM or tying MM too > tightly to HTdig.
At the moment htdig patches provides nice add-on functionality for Mailman, and there are no better (read: simpler) ways to add search capability to the archives. > > I have a half completed rework of the #444884 patch to make it more of > a "search framework", so that a variety of search engines could be > plugged in more readily, but finding the time and effort to complete > this is a problem for me. And, if I am honest, I doubt that even this > would be admitted to the core MM code before MM 3. Take patch #444879, > which has been entirely search engine agnostic and configured to do > nothing be default for some considerable time, and that has not been > accepted into the CVS. To cap it all, MM 3 is supposed to get a better > built-in archiver (than the current pipermail implementation) > incorporating built-in search; so why waste my time and effort on > figuring out enhanced changes to obsolescent code. I can agree that neither pipermail, nor htdig are the best one's, but they at least work -- now, and are easy to setup. > > Others must speak to their view but I doubt you will see this problem > resolved before MM 3. Afaik, before MM 3, we must 1st wait for MM 2.2, so it looks like it won't happen tomorrow, and it is a pity not to have some replacement in between :-) Sincerely, Gour ps. Anyway, thank you Richard for your hard work in providing and maintaining these patches. -- Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #278493 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
