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Dave Rolsky  
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 More options Sep 24 2005, 11:10 am
From: Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:10:54 -0500 (CDT)
Local: Sat, Sep 24 2005 11:10 am
Subject: JSAN search is near useless
If I search for "DOM" in Libraries, Distributions, or Releases I get no
matches.  When I search for a name I know exists it finds it (like
DOM.Ready) but that really doesn't help.

Taking a look at the code, I see it's actually pulling a YAML index from
the server and searching it locally with JS.  I think I'd be hard-pressed
to make this useful, since the only way to search based on wildcards would
be to iterate over every entry, and that just doesn't scale.

Any chance of replacing this with a useful server side search?

-dave

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David Wheeler  
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 More options Sep 24 2005, 1:04 pm
From: David Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:04:07 -0700
Local: Sat, Sep 24 2005 1:04 pm
Subject: Re: JSAN search is near useless
On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> Any chance of replacing this with a useful server side search?

I believe that Casey planned to do so at some point, with the mirrors  
submitting to www.openjsan.org, and then the search results would use  
the referrer to create the links. But he's been a bit busy lately  
with, you know, a new job and a new baby. I don't expect that he'd  
refuse a patch, though I think you'd have to use TT. :-)

Best,

David


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Dave Rolsky  
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 More options Sep 24 2005, 7:51 pm
From: Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:51:48 -0500 (CDT)
Local: Sat, Sep 24 2005 7:51 pm
Subject: Re: JSAN search is near useless

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, David Wheeler wrote:
> I believe that Casey planned to do so at some point, with the mirrors
> submitting to www.openjsan.org, and then the search results would use
> the referrer to create the links. But he's been a bit busy lately with,
> you know, a new job and a new baby. I don't expect that he'd refuse a
> patch, though I think you'd have to use TT. :-)

I later realized that the list of modules on the front page is the entire
list, so my need is less urgent.  We're _supposed_ to be getting time to
work on our own projects at $DAYJOB so maybe Casey or I will have a chance
to work on it there.

-dave

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