From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 2 1: 4:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D10037B66D; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 01:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e91JA4U04342; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:10:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:10:04 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Andrew Boothman Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , core@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton Subject: Re: Assessing Search Engine Issues Message-ID: <20001001201004.B4294@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@cream.org on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:36:14AM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:36:14AM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Perhaps having the entire archive in tables in a MySQL server is a good idea, > because of the flexability that SQL would give us. I'm not saying that's "The > Way To Go", I'm just saying that it can be implemented in any way we want. > Subject to that little question of the resources that are available. Before we go any further down that route, I'd like to hear why something like ports/www/swish-e and a standard CGI isn't suitable. This would (in theory) make it easier for mirrors to do searches locally if they preferred. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message