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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Full Text Indexing for KMAIL: SUBMISSION
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-05-28 21:04:33
Message-ID: 200505282304.37393 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Saturday 28 May 2005 16:47, Luís Pedro Coelho wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2005 12:56, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Google-like behavior, i.e. full text searches. Of course, this
> > implies that we have to change the way the search phrase is
> > interpreted, i.e. we have to interpret it as list of words that
> > should be contained, but not as phrase that needs to match exactly.
> > (IIRC the full text search already does this?)
>
> My implementation mimics google in that you can use quotes to search
> for the exact phrase (case-insensitive and without diacritics).

Great. We'll have to change QListViewSearch (or at least our version of 
it) to behave the same, but that shouldn't be such a big problem.

> > So you really want to release the library as external package?
>
> I don't really know whether anyone would like to use this somewhere
> else, but I don't really think it belongs in KDE since it is not
> KDE/Qt based at all. One of the goals was performance and I believe
> that the low level approach I took paid off so all the structures are
> hand-written (especially in order to control the disk layout).
>
> OTOH, keeping the library close to kmail which is the only place
> which uses it right now will insure that there is no need to update
> an external package if a new version comes out.

So we should probably put it directly into kdepim for now? What do you 
think?

Regards,
Ingo

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