>HP> 1) The Wilma procedure seems to require an archive in mail format as
>HP> well as the converted html format. This seems like a waste of disk
>HP> space to me. Can this be circumvented?
>
>The archive is required during the month that it is current for. After
>that you can delete it.
That's fine. Seeing how the Glimpse indexing is performed nightly I see why
this is done.
>HP> 2) I didn't see where Wilma/Glimpse will automatically add new pages to
>HP> the Glimpse search index (not mhonarc index) as I believe HTDIG will
>HP> allow.
>
>I fail to understand you here. The index page shows every monthly archive
>that Wilma has generated.
Not knowing Glimpse yet, I'm not sure how it works. However, if a search
index (not the mhonarc index) only has to be added to rather than
re-created, the process would seem more efficient. Mhonarc can add on the
fly, why not a search tool? Just a thought.
>HP> The indexing seems to occur in the cron job on a nightly/periodic
>HP> basis. Can the new postings be indexed on the fly in order to keep them
>HP> current?
>
>I guess you could, but it wasn't designed to work that way. One nightly
>reinc/reindex is the way I had it work. You could up the frequency if you
>wanted. Doing it for every message would be a big waste of resources
>(rebuilding Glimpse indices isn't really fast), but that would be your
>choice.
It certainly would if it did a full rebuild every time.
>HP> 3) I may try to use the Wilma package as is but leave out the Glimpse
>HP> nightly index and instead use HTDIG for all searching of the
>HP> directories but Wilma for the yymm filing system. Any comments?
>
>Feel free, if you want to do the work. Never having used htdig, I can't
>comment on whether or not it makes sense. I don't think very much of Wilma
>sould be of use to you were you to do that, though, but feel free to take
>what you want.
>
>It sounds like you don't want Wilma, you want something else that Wilma
>reminds you of. That's fine; we wrote Wilma do handle a specific task
>which probably doesn't sync up with too many other peoples' wishes.
I think Wilma looks great (especially monthly directories). It actually
"syncs up" real well with my end goals. You guys have done a great job
putting together a package to meet a necessary goal. I guess my problem
really centers on Glimpse, it's layout, results look, feel and nightly
update process. I will probably start with it so I can move on with my
project. If you ever get bored (yeah right), perhaps you would consider
making Wilma flexible for other FREE search engines like htdig and Excite.
If I get the time (yeah right again) I'll look at it myself and pass on any
code.
Thanks for responding to my picky requests.
Harry
