Re: Search services (semi)officially (re)launches

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <rudd-o amautacorp com>]

Both =).

ZODB is used to store the data, and MySQL to catalog it in a very fast to
search way.

> Very interesting, looks pretty promising. What are the software
> dependencies? I saw in one place you mention MySQL but in another u
> mentioned ZODB, do you use both?
>
> On Apr 2, 2005 3:01 AM, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o amautacorp com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Well, parentheses around word prefixes in the subject are just
>> ornaments.
>> First, let me excuse myself if this list is the wrong venue to spread
>> this
>> message.
>>
>> What the hell is R talking about?
>> ---------------------------------------
>>
>> Search services!  Our mission: to build and provide the world with free
>> software tools that enrich and facilitate the computing experience.  Our
>> vision: a world where search is always available, fast and reliable -
>> and
>> not wanting to rely on it is unthinkable.
>>
>> What is this Search services thingie he just said?
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I got tired, *truly* tired, of resorting to tons of tools to find what I
>> want on my computer.  See, like many here, I own about 160GB of data,
>> scattered all around in my hard disks (let's leave removable storage out
>> of the sentence) and I just can't find things when I need them.  Let's
>> recap:
>>
>> - find and grep -r for odds and ends
>> - htdig (heavily customized) for developer documentation and manual
>> pages
>> (I haven't counted how many)
>> - Rhythmbox and amaroK for music (about 13000 songs)
>> - Evolution for e-mail (since 1995, about 1GB of maildirs)
>>
>> I hate it with my guts.  And I've started a journey to make this madness
>> stop.
>>
>> How?
>> ---------
>>
>> Pour 2 liters of Python in a bowl.  Stir (gently) with gnome-vfs and
>> assorted OSS desktop technologies.  Add MySQL to your taste.  Serve
>> decorated with pygtk.
>>
>> I've built a preliminary Frankenstein monster, which is usable and (I
>> think) now worthy of public testing.  Search services is the umbrella
>> project for:
>>
>> - The metadata service: A multipurpose, extensible indexer and search
>> service.
>> - Quick search: A simple, graphical search tool.
>> - python-inotify: An abstraction to the Linux inotify file notification
>> system.
>> - python-UnixSocketTransport: An extension for the Python xmlrpclib
>> XML-RPC client library
>> - python-mytools: A collection of tools to run a private MySQL database,
>> catalog Python objects and perform blazingly fast queries on the
>> catalog.
>>
>> Where do I get this stuff?
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> http://www.amautacorp.com/staff/Rudd-O/projects/search-services/
>>
>> I have questions?
>> ----------------------
>>
>> Yes, U sure do.  No, no, that's actually the name of the song I'm
>> listening to.  I'm rambling again, sorry.  Direct any inquiries to me,
>> or
>> to me *and* the list if you feel it's worthy of public discussion.  I
>> just
>> request that you include my e-mail address in the recipient/CC list so
>> my
>> Evo filters catch and flag those e-mails.
>>
>>         Rudd-O
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        Rudd-O