Re: [htdig-dev] old PR#??? bug numbers (was: patch for argument handling in htsearch)

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

According to Lachlan Andrew:
> Finally, the "current status" emails refer to problems 
> numbers which don't match the SourceForge problem numbers.  
> Where can I find the original numbering?

Unless we can get the original bug reports from the old database, these
pieced together descriptions from old e-mail references will have to do...

PR#348 was fixed in 3.1.3.  Missing or invalid port number will get set
correctly.  I can't find an old e-mail giving more details, but I think
the bug is fixed in 3.2 as well, unless something similar was reopened
by all the changes to URL.cc.

PR#648 was fixed in 3.1.4.  Its most relevant e-mail is this...
> According to Geoff Hutchison:
> > >At 8:41 AM -0700 9/20/99, Ber...@wd... wrote:
> > >  >I hope it's not a big problem to include the keyword statement into
> > >  >the pagelist
> > >  >variable.
> > >
> > >No, but it's definitely a bug. It won't make 3.1.3, which I'm
> > >releasing tonight. Sorry.
> 
> There are a few other problems with inconsistent handling of input parameters,
> but this seems to be the most troublesome one.  It's an ugly hack, but until
> this problem is fixed, I think you can make sure the keywords parameter
> gets propagated in followups by putting this attribute in your config file:
> 
> allow_in_form: keywords
> 
> It's really meant for allowing input parameters to override config attributes,
> but a nice side effect of it is the listed input parameters get propagated.

I can't find any e-mail that includes the text of PR#650, but the STATUS
file has a synopsis: If exact isn't specified in the search_algorithms,
$(WORDS) is not set correctly.

Subject: Re: Meta Description incorrectly flagged (PR#859)
> At 1:51 PM -0400 6/11/00, rw...@in... wrote:
> >In the db.worddump file, (created with htdig -t) the value in the
> >"flags" column for words that appears in the meta description tags is the same
> >as that for those in title.
> >
> >The flags column is "2". Shouldn't this be "16" as defined in
> >HtWordReference.h?
> 
> Yes, this is correct. I'll have to hunt through and find out where it
> is set incorrectly. HtWordReference.h attempts to resolve the
> confusion in the code between META descriptions and ht://Dig's use of
> "description" to mean the link text.
> 
> -Geoff

Hope this helps.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)