initial edgy plans

[daniele favara]

On 6/5/06, email.listen at googlemail.com <email.listen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Op Man, 5. June 2006 16:17 daniele favara schrievt:
> > On 6/5/06, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > i've seen xfce has SOC projects ... what if we ask to add to
> > > > libthunar-vfs ssh support?
> > >
> > > Was Xfce accepted to SoC? Got a link?
> > >
> > > > Since "time" now i'm administering xubuntu-it section of
> > > > ubuntu-it.org, that's a feature users ask with file-manager + samba .
> > > >
> > > > as i tried for dapper i'd porpose again a desktop search tool ...
> > > > pkges are ready in revu .. at least we can see how the devel reacts
> > > > and if he'll contribute with xubuntu. So mainly having those packages
> > > > in universe would be a first step.
> > >
> > > I agree a search tool is needed. Even a simple Ctrl-F (again Win95 style)
> > > not necessarily
> > > a beagle-like one, although the latter is nice too of course.
> >
> > no .. no beagle no mono .. pure c++
>
> swish++
>
> Description: Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version
>  SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine
>  (typically used to index and search files on web sites).  It
>  was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite.
>  SWISH++ was developed to circumvent author's difficulties with
>  using the SWISH-E package.
>  features:
>    * Lightning-fast indexing
>    * Indexes META elements, ALT, and other attributes
>    * Selectively not index text within HTML or XHTML elements
>    * Intelligently index mail and news files
>    * Index Unix manual page files
>    * Apply filters to files on-the-fly prior to indexing
>    * Index non-text files such as Microsoft Office documents
>    * Modular indexing architecture
>    * Index new files incrementally
>    * Index remote web sites
>    * Handles large collections of files
>    * Lightning-fast searching
>    * Optional word stemming (suffix stripping)
>    * Ability to run as a search server
>    * Easy-to-parse results format
>    * Generously commented source code
>
>
> It only needs a gui frontend, e.g. in python.
>
> I'm using it on my documetation partition (2.5Gb) and never saw a faster
> search and indexing tool like swish++. And so it was on my old machine, AMD
> K6-III 500Mhz, should be comparable to a PIII 400Mhz.
>

please try xapian .. i love that stuff ... pinot and recoll are using it


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