Re: [htdig-dev] Re: New patch - feedback

[Ted Stresen-R. <ted...@ma...>]

You know, I saw this mentioned somewhere and thought that that's what 
the purpose of the lib was but just to get some clarification, does 
libhtdig incorporate all the programs of the htdig project (htdig, 
htsearch, htpurge, etc...) or is it just the indexer? My guess is that 
it is everything. Also, does it integrate with external parsers the 
same way the standard programs do (via the .conf files)?

Also, although a personal search engine would be fun to develop, it's 
probably just a "wow, cool" kind of project rather than something 
someone actually needs... so, before I head down any new project paths, 
I think I'll try and finish something I've been working on for a while 
now that the htdig project would benefit more greatly from: splitting 
attrs.html.

Thanks.

Ted Stresen-Reuter

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 05:15  PM, Neal Richter wrote:

>
>>
>> On another note, I went to a WebObjects user group meeting last night
>> and learned of a very intriguing future for Mac OS X. Imagine 
>> embedding
>> Safari (or just the html rendering engine) inside other applications:
>> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/
>>
>> I am considering putting a GUI on htdig for use as a personal search
>> engine (to index and find documents on a user's workstation) rendering
>> the results with the Safari rendering engine (KHTML). That way, no web
>> server is needed. We'll see if that ever goes anywhere...
>
>   This is the guts of what libhtdig & libhtdigphp is supposed to
> accomplish.  Of course libhtdigphp is supposed to be used with a
> webserver, but it works just fine from the command line as well..
> creating a PHP file that executes the php-wrapper calls for the 
> libhtdig APIs.
>
> 'php -e xxx.php' will execute php files from the command-line and work
> great as long as the php code does not depend on environment variables 
> set
> by Apache (like REMOTE_ADDR).
>
>   libhtdig itself could be linked into/against another C/C++ 
> application
> and be called to conduct the search & retrieve the results for display 
> however
> you want.  This is essentially the reason why the HtDig developers 
> voted
> on moving the entire codebase to LGPL.. so that anyone could use this
> library for 'information retrieval' applications.
>
>   libhtdig also contains extenstions that allow you add individual
> documents to the index outside of a web-crawl.  Just fill the structure
> appropriately and it will be indexed and returned on appropriate 
> searches.
>
>   I have not yet committed the libhtdigphp directory, due to issues 
> about
> 'configure' being general enough.  I'll commit it today and see what
> people think of the build process.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Neal Richter
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