Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:07:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jfieber@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comments on new search page.. Message-ID: <9704141107.AA02461@wavehh.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <199704121435.HAA17981@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 97 07:35:16 am
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> > http://www.freebsd.org/search.html is nice - I like the consolidation > of search features! > > However, what's not so nice is how it's currently implemented. > I click on GNATs and go to www.freebsd.org (fine and expected), > I click on "Manual Pages" or "Ports Changes" and go to Germany > (uhhh... say what?!), I click on "The Source Code" and I go to > Australia (though more often than not, like right now for example) > it's just too crazed and unpredictable an experience to be that > useful (connectivity from California to Germany or OZ is unusably > slow or even non-existant during most parts of the business day now). I've been talking to Wolfram, who does the new-ports and man CGIs and want to move them to freefall. However, what is nice about Wolframs own machine is that be has put together a collection of manpages from various Unix derivates. If it is not too slow, it may not be the worst idea to keep the collection on a machine where it gets maintained. Regarding the ports interface, I didn't hear anything from the HPUX folks yet. Will try again. > We've been talking about bringing Warren Toomey's indexed source page > for awhile now, As soon as I find some time, I want to implement quite a bit cross-referencing between various WWW parts that relate to source code and programs. > though at this point we could just as well substitute > in GLOBAL indexed pages (and I will probably bring in the tags support > for that soon) and I see no reason why the German stuff could be > brought a little closer to home. Sorry, I didn't get this sentense. What exactly do you want to do? I planned to add links from the GLOBAL-generated pages to CVSweb (and reverse) and possibly add a search function to find GNATS reports that releate to those files. A GNATs report put out via HTML could have links to GLOBAL and CVSweb pages as well. And yes, I have a perspective to find the time :-) Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36
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