From owner-freebsd-www Mon Apr 14 04:14:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA04631 for www-outgoing; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA04620; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 04:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Mon, 14 Apr 97 13:14 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for jfieber@freebsd.org id ; Mon, 14 Apr 97 13:14 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02461; Mon, 14 Apr 97 13:07:13 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9704141107.AA02461@wavehh.hanse.de> Subject: Re: Comments on new search page.. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:07:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jfieber@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704121435.HAA17981@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 12, 97 07:35:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36