[gopher] Possible to perform item type searches in Veronica-2?

[Wesley Teal]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 7:46 PM, James Mills <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au>
wrote:

>
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Wesley Teal <wesleyteal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> When doing searches, I've actually found Veronica-2/VISHNU have been
>> pretty good.
>> That said, item type filtering would be awesome. I've also been thinking
>> about a full-text
>> search engine for a years, mostly because I've been wanting to give
>> myself the headache
>> (I mean: find the time) to implement one. Maybe someday ...
>>
>
> Wanna team up with me to build one?
>

Sure, I'd be open to that.  Drop me a line off list at wesleyteal at gmail.com
if you want.

A caveat: I'm not a particularly proficient programmer (another reason I
haven't given a
gopher search engine a go). I have a humanities background with only a few
CS-type
courses.


Wesley

>
> The thing about Veronica-2 -- searching basd on titles
> is that titles have to be have useful titiles :)
>
> Often that may (or may not) be the case :)
>
> And in either case you tend to end up searching for
> resources (by title) rather then by resources (by content).
>
> I think :)
>
> I think full-text searching would complement Veronica-2 nicely IHMO
> (but Cameron doesn't want to go that way... which is okay)
>
> I was thinking of utilizing whoosh[1] and related tool(s).
>
> cheers
> James
>
> [1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whoosh
>
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>
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