Re: htsearch - a better wrapper solution

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@pobox.com>]

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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Sounds excellent... and a lot less CPU intensive.  While could hack the C, I'm wary
> to do so...  not only do I have a ton to do already, but then we need to re-hack
> other versions that are released.  

It is open source.  Just send the patch in and viola.  Instant future
updates! :-)
 
> What changes in the wrapper files from sub-section to sub-section?

Depends :-)  Minimally, each sub section would need it's own search page
so that htsearch could drilldown.  Mostly stuff related to that.

> Assuming there would be things changing, what if we had the scripts generate an
> appropriate wrapper file?  Can the cfg file refer to the wrapper file as a relative
> path?  If it must be absolute we may be able to have the scripts parse/create the
> cfg files too...

According to the docs, the config file path can not include any periods.
The wrapper file would IMHO live in the root dir of each subsection.
 
> Don't worry about complicating my scripts... believe me... I'm doing plenty of
> complicating myself :).  The script will be the largest chunk of logic on the site,
> and thats fine... we gotta put the logic for the type of functionality we want
> somewhere :).

Okey dokey.  (Be careful for what you wish for though... :-)
 
> Comments on my thoughts/suggestions above?
> 
> Jason


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