Re: [FOSSology] technical questions FOSSology

2009-08-19 Thread Armijn Hemel
hiya, [snip] I don't see why that should be restricted to just one language. It would be a lot harder to implement than plain UTF-8 searches. So, basically it comes down to full text searches. I'm not sure how well PostgreSQL can handle these (I think it can). The dictionary,

Re: [FOSSology] technical questions FOSSology

2009-08-19 Thread Bob Gobeille
On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Armijn Hemel wrote: snip Just a plan full text search will find function names, text in printf's, and strings in binaries because everything looks like a string (in my idea of a simple initial implementation). In other words, the search won't distinguish between a