RE: [htdig-dev] Re: testing

[Budd, S. <s....@ic...>]

Did this patch make it into a snapshot?



-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Hutchison [mailto:ghu...@ws...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 5:06 AM
To: lh...@ee...
Cc: htd...@li...
Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] Re: testing



On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 07:52  PM, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> This should be a lesson to me about posting bug reports
> from memory...  (One day I'll get my development machine on
> line :)

Yes, another good lesson is to post bug reports to SF.net so we can also 
track them. ;-)

>  The backward-compatible fix is to fix  htsearch  (a five
> line patch)

Let's do this ASAP. We can back it out later, but at least the code will 
be temporarily consistent.

> but the more elegand solution would be to
> change  htdig  to treat the two consistently.  My
> preference would be to specify the *true* location of all
> words, even counting short words.  That way we could
> distinguish between a true phrase match and a "phrase
> match, but possibly with short words in between".

Yes, I agree that this is The Right Way(tm). It's definitely a bug that 
it's not currently specifying the *true* location of words.

BTW, do you have a SourceForge account? We should get you CVS access.

Cheers,
-Geoff



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