[Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Search engines and local git repos

Tim Moody tim at timmoody.com
Tue Feb 17 13:57:21 EST 2015


The problem with indexing is that it's a lot easier with text files (like 
html) than binary files like pdf, doc, zim, etc.  iiab and kiwix can both 
index zims, which is how we search wikis, but a lot of our content is in 
binary files.  A quick look at opensearchserver makes me think they mainly 
do html.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Anish Mangal
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:37 PM
To: server-devel ; xsce-devel
Subject: [XSCE] Re: Search engines and local git repos

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FWIW, I haven't checked for the existence of ARM packages. For
OpenSearchServer, the major dependency seemed to be java, so it might
not be quite so difficult there. (I hope)

Not sure of gitlab.

On Tuesday 17 February 2015 11:41 PM, Anish Mangal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I've been playing around with various things which might be
> added to the XSCE and the two that I came across which seem quite
> straightforward to setup are (basically installing an rpm package
> and 1-2 small config steps)
>
> 1. OpenSearchServer - An offline search engine for content on the
> XSCE
>
> http://www.opensearchserver.com/
>
> Use case: There may be tons of content stored under many different
> web services on the xsce. Instead of going through each service
> and manually searching/browsing, one may simply want to .. 'google'
> :)
>
> Caveat(s): * Crawling seems a cpu intensive process, but with
> proper scheduling, it could be handled * Havent tested with IIAB
> files yet. If anyone has an IIAB dataset online, please let me
> know
>
> My experiments:
>
> * I basically installed the rpm a f21 VM and it works out of the
> box! Has a detailed admin interface which basically controls
> behavior to search and index webpages, databases, mailboxes etc.
> and present to the user as a simple search box
>
> Next step:
>
> * Playbook
>
>
>
> 2. gitlab - github for the xsce
>
> https://about.gitlab.com/
>
> Does what it says on the cover .. limited use only if some kids
> want to develop code
>
> Possible integration with other projects like gitenberg (Seth
> Woodworth) in the future... needs lots of exploration
>
> My experiments:
>
> * Install and test the provided rpm packages. Instructions worked
> out of the box
>
> Next step:
>
> * Playbook
>
>
> Thoughts, Anish
>
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