[htdig-dev] Re: HtDig 4.0 on the mac

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

Great!  I would say we need help getting the current htdig 4.0 devel 
branch in shape as things are progressing.. ie configure and makefiles.

At this point we're building Clucene in a seperate directory and using a 
shell script to build the new version of htdig.exe

I have some ideas on how we could organize things for better 
cross-platform development.

Could you check out the current version of the 4.0 branch and read through 
the htdig directory and see where it leads you?

We also are going to nearly abandon htsearch.  We've been using a tool 
called 'luke' http://www.getopt.org/luke/ to query and examine the Clucene 
index.

Anthony has been working on a document listing each htdig config verb and 
what action we'll need to take on it {delete, reimplement, 
modify-behavior}

Thanks.


On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Christopher Murtagh wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 10:24 -0600, Neal Richter wrote:
> > I wanted to touch base with both of you to guage your interest in 
> > htdig 4.0 on Mac OS X.
> > 
> > Ted:  I know you've said you pitch in when you get time
> > 
> > Chris:  I still have the Mac you sent me.
> > 
> > Would you be interested in having a discussion about what you have 
> > done with htdig + postgresql?  I want to make sure we design the API 
> > appropriately for your type of usage (it's likely very similar to 
> > RightNow's potential usage)
> 
>  Yeah, actually this sounds interesting, not exclusively from the Mac
> perspective, but as a more general discussion, yes.
> 
>  We (Eric Dorland, a colleague of mine and myself) would also like to
> help out with development and take on a more active role. We've gotten
> the ok to officially devote a 1/2 day per two weeks to htdig development
> from our boss. We don't want to come in and take control or steer things
> away from what you might have intended, but since we do benefit from
> htdig quite a bit, we would like to contribute back and also, if this
> would help get utf-8 support sooner, it would benefit us greatly.
> 
>  So, if there's stuff that needs doing, and you want to delegate, or a
> cvs repo that we can check out and start looking at, please let us know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 

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