Re: [htdig3-dev] htsearch rewrite


Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] htsearch rewrite
From: Gilles Detillieux (grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 12:15:03 PDT


According to Geoff Hutchison:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Quim Sanmarti wrote:
> > fuzzy algos. I haven't studied enough Gilles' suggestion about fuzzy
> > chaining, but it can be down by deriving a class from FuzzyExpander. Fuzzy
> > expansion is performed at the moment of query parse.
>
> I think we'll want to hold off on this a bit. I agree it might be a good
> idea, but we also want to avoid loops and work out a good way to specify
> this in the config file. Maybe we can hold off for 3.2.1 or 3.3.
> (Remember, I also want to see 3.2.0 out the door as soon as reasonably
> possible.)

I agree. Fuzzy chaining would be a nice addition, but it may take some
time to get it working right, and it shouldn't hold up the 3.2.0 release.
I mentioned it more so that you'd think about how it might be spliced in
later, so you don't adopt a scheme that would make that later addition
really difficult.

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