Re: [htdig-dev] Proper way of accessing results?

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Wolfgang Mueller:
> Hi,
> I am currently looking into writing a htdig plugin for the GIFT.
> 
> I want people to configure htdig the usual way and (if necessary) to point to 
> a htdig configuration within the usual GIFT configuration file. 
> 
> What I would like to write, is just something short which does not use html 
> for querying htdig, but which interacts with your internal search functions, 
> something like a stripped version of the main of htsearch.
> 
> Are there any particular dos and donts concerning the access of your searcher 
> class? Can I use one searcher incarnation for multiple searches?
> 
> Any comments appreciated.

I haven't seen any responses to your question, but I think perhaps either
Michael Haggerty or Geoff Hutchison should be able to answer.  Both of them
are working on, or planning to work on, some pretty major restructuring of
the htsearch code, at least in part to make it easier to use the searcher
classes in other programs.  With the 3.2.0b4 code as it stands now, I don't
think it's that easy to just strip out what you need.

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