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: Ilan Volow <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 03:39:37 -0400
On May 2, 2004, at 1:07 AM, Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch wrote:
Ilan Volow, email@hidden, wrote:
One project I've started on in the last several days is a python
program that downloads the entire cocoa-dev archives and that will
allow you to search your own private copy of the archives (I thought
I'd use PyObjC for the UI), and would let you do things like search
and
browse messages by Cocoa classes mentioned and let you bring up the
program from XCode (sort of like the double-click option/command
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>
Somehow, I am not surprised that someone else had the same idea and
wrote the code for it.
I pulled down all of cocoa-dev last night. It's 68387 files, 300MB
uncompressed, 44MB tarballed.
If it didn't violate the terms of usage, one could tarball the archives
and spread them via bittorrent/gnutella. It would save Apple a ton of
bandwidth and would spread the burden of hosting such monsters across
more than a few people. However, I like being subscribed to the list
and don't want to have that status changed (sigh).
Right now, I'm still working on the download part, so the
implementation of the search part is still wide open. I'm not really
very well informed on search technology besides grep, so if anyone
wants to help me with this project (e.g. create a python module for
SearchKit, advice on how to structure the thing, etc), your help would
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.
No sense in duplication of effort. Glad someone else has started to
work on this.
--
Ilan Volow
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
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