Re: [htdig-dev] htdig as a shared library

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Neal Richter wrote:

> 	Any tips/input from anyone on the best way to make a shared
> library containing htdig & libraries like (libfuzzy.a libcommon.a libht.a
> etc)?  [It looks straightforward..]

If you want a shared library, use 3.2--it builds shared libraries on many
platforms.

> 	We're looking at using htdig as an information archive search
> engine.  We use PHP for our web apps, and would want to call the functions
> of htsearch from a PHP page.

Have you taken a look at the various PHP wrappers for htsearch? There are
several in the contrib/ directory on the
website: <http://www.htdig.org/contrib/> and
<http://www.htdig.org/files/contrib/>

> 2.	What would be involved in getting 3.2.x further down the road of
> Unicode?  We are in the process of completing a move of a very large 500K+
> line project to be UTF-8.  Who is the point man for htdig/Unicode issues?
> 	We have the resources to assist htdig in moving to Unicode.

We don't have one at the moment. Those of us who are active developers
have our hands full with other projects and don't have the interest at the
moment to work on Unicode.

My feeling is that the first step towards Unicode would be to get the
htword/mifluz backend synched with the mifluz CVS tree, which should be
more useful for Unicode applications. (It's also less bug-prone from what
I can tell.) Since others seem interested in this possibility, perhaps I
should spin the 3-2-x branch back to the mainline and fork a branch for
synching with mifluz.

While I don't think any of us intended to see Unicode in 3.2, if you have
the resources to make this happen, it certainly won't be turned away.

Welcome!

--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/