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: Mon, 3 May 2004 00:17:46 -0500
Ilan Volow, email@hidden, wrote:
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1. It sounds like you wrote some really cool code. It would be a shame
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for it to gather dust on your hard drive. It might also provide a
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useful example to people trying to learn how to use SearchKit.
It's hardly cool, but it's (barely) functional. Here's the
projects+source+binaries:
<
http://rentzsch.com/share/JRFoundation-0.dmg> (92K)
<
http://rentzsch.com/share/AppleListSearch-0.dmg> (104K)
One possibility is to remove the dependence on local files. That is,
download the entire mailing list, index it, and then redistribute only
the index. I haven't tried cocoa-dev yet, but xcode-users index weighs in
at 3.5MB (zips down to 1.5MB) for a 18.9 MB archive folder.
The searching+ranking or results would be instantaneous, and the client
app could use WebKit to display the actual posting content.
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2. Some people (such as myself) have to occasionally search all their
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mailboxes for a piece of info in a message. If you're one of those
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people, you'd hate to have 300MB of additional stuff to search through.
I don't use Mail.app. Can't you restrict your search to only certain
folders?
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3. There are some types of things that Mail wouldn't do but a dedicated
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app would. One feature that dedicated app could do would be to let you
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browse archives messages by the Cocoa classes they mention. Sort of a
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"class browser" for mailing list messages.
Whoa.
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4. With a dedicated app (or a portion thereof), one could rig up a
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script to make the archives viewer appear via a command in XCode.
Hmm.
| Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
http://rentzsch.com
| Red Shed Software
http://redshed.net
| "better" necessarily means "different"
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