[squeak-dev] Re: Search Engine for Smalltalk Codes

Bernhard Pieber bernhard at pieber.com
Fri Dec 31 08:12:25 UTC 2010


Hi Zhe-Xi,

I forgot to add that it would be *great* if you could revive some of this work! Full text indexing would be a great feature to have in Squeak. So feel yourself encouraged! ;-)

Cheers,
Bernhard

Am 31.12.2010 um 09:06 schrieb Zhe-Xi Lim:
> Thanks for showing me the lights. I will study carefully the work done by
> Scott and then maybe a integrated search engine could be built on top of
> that.
> bpi wrote:
>> In 2002 Scott A. Crosby implemented full text search for Squeak.
>> Unfortunately it was never integrated and Scott left the community. See
>> the following post:
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2002-April/037964.html
>> 
>> If you search the mailing list for posts from around that time you will
>> probably find more information.
>> 
>> The code seems to be on SqueakMap:
>> http://map.squeak.org/package/6e65267d-53e0-46b0-a4dd-7cb349e18f23
>> and on SqueakSource:
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/@Xjs1PWixYhd_s5Y1/nsS7RXdi
>> 
>> Most likely some work would be needed in order to make it run.




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