Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- Subject: Re: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- From: "Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 00:07:33 -0500
Ilan Volow, email@hidden, wrote:
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One project I've started on in the last several days is a python
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program that downloads the entire cocoa-dev archives and that will
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allow you to search your own private copy of the archives (I thought
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I'd use PyObjC for the UI), and would let you do things like search and
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browse messages by Cocoa classes mentioned and let you bring up the
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program from XCode (sort of like the double-click option/command
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documentation thing).
Andrew already has this working, albeit in Perl:
<
http://www.helpfultiger.com/helpfultiger/2003/11/searching_apple.html>
<
http://www.helpfultiger.com/helpfultiger/2003/12/list_searchingu.html>
I pulled down all of cocoa-dev last night. It's 68387 files, 300MB
uncompressed, 44MB tarballed.
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Right now, I'm still working on the download part, so the
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implementation of the search part is still wide open. I'm not really
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very well informed on search technology besides grep, so if anyone
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wants to help me with this project (e.g. create a python module for
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SearchKit, advice on how to structure the thing, etc), your help would
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be greatly appreciated.
I wrote a minimal Cocoa app that allows searching of the downloaded
archives using SearchKit. If folks are serious about offline searching,
then it probably makes sense for me to open the ObjC code so we all can
make it better.
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I've read through the rules and regulations on the Apple lists site. As
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far as I can tell, something like this is permitted as long as the
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archive you build is for private use.
I agree with your assessment.
| Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
http://rentzsch.com
| Red Shed Software
http://redshed.net
| "better" necessarily means "different"
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