Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Davies
Thanks for the tips Ian Building this search solution is the next job on my every growing list, I think I'll blog it as it'll be a really good example of someone who is starting from the beggining with very little knowledge :-) On 03/10/2007, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Holsman
Matt Davies wrote: > Hi Ian > > > I'm not very clued up with Java so solr, although I've built it to > work on 3 sites now with django, they're still single indexes. We've > got over 200 sites in house that we're looking for a compelte search > solution for. > > I think solr is definately the

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Davies
Hi Ian BTW, this is different to what shabda was proposing, which was doing all-the-web type searches Ahh, I got you. I'm not very clued up with Java so solr, although I've built it to work on 3 sites now with django, they're still single indexes. We've got over 200 sites in house that we're

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Holsman
Matt Davies wrote: > yes please shabda > > we're currenlty moving away from webglimpse and into solr for our > search engine technology, but something inside django itself would be > really useful. > > While I live and breathe solr (we use it VERY heavily @ $WORK), I'm not sure what you would

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-02 Thread Thejaswi Puthraya
On Oct 2, 12:30 am, "shabda.raaj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks to me that a api to get web search functionality in Django > would be good idea. Yes, a full-text search functionality is really cool and there has been considerable effort that has been put into this. Check out

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-01 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 10/2/07, shabda.raaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework? I am > willing to code this. But before doing that, I just want to make sure > it would be useful to people :) It could be. It depends on exactly what it does, and how well it

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-01 Thread Waylan Limberg
The contrib apps are just normal django apps that happen to be included with the core. Generally, developers simply develop them as a third party app, and if the demand is there and the core devs like/approve it, the app gets added as a contrib app. That decision usuualy only happens after the

Re: Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-01 Thread Matt Davies
yes please shabda we're currenlty moving away from webglimpse and into solr for our search engine technology, but something inside django itself would be really useful. Especially if you could query other django appilcations from within one application. ooh, now dat be tasty burgers On

Would a web search be a good addition to the contribs framework?

2007-10-01 Thread shabda.raaj
It looks to me that a api to get web search functionality in Django would be good idea. For example, I generally want to keep track of the pages linking to my sites. Similarly being able to search from inside of django might be useful in many cases. Would a web search be a good addition to the