Re: Organizing the OSCON presence

Oleg,

Yes, I will mention Search-OpenFTS-Crawler. I just installed it. It's awesome. It so nice to
have and end-to-end solution that uses tsearch2. Search-OpenFTS-Crawler demonstrates features
like: relevance ranking, word stemming, HTML parsing, and headline generation.

I had some trouble installing it though. In particular, I would improve the INSTALL file for
Lingua-Stem-Snowball. In step 1, I would include instructions on how install snowball. Include
something like:

cd /tmp/snowball
tar -xvzf ./snowball.tgz
gcc -O -o snowball p/*.c
Copy or link the executable to a directory in your path.

In step 5, I would include an example that uses the bash shell to set the snowball environment
variables:

SNOWBALL_SRC=/tmp/snowball
export SNOWBALL_SRC

SNOWBALL_STEMMER=/tmp/stemmers
export SNOWBALL_STEMMER

Last, I would comment out the following line in Search-OpenFTS-Crawler-0.4/example/init-crawler.pl

use lib qw (/u/megera/app/fts/test-suite);

Thanks,
George

--- Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
> George,
>
> probably another example how to use OpenFTS would be
> creating searchable PostgreSQL documentation I described in
> Search-OpenFTS-Crawler-0.4.tar.gz ?
>
> Search::OpenFTS::Crawler inherits most functions of Search::OpenFTS and
> adds crawler specific methods, so once installed it's very easy to create
> searchable collections (on one database). You may download it from
> http://openfts.sourceforge.net/contributions.shtml
>
> Live example:
> http://mira.sai.msu.ru/~megera/pgsql/
>
> Oleg
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, George Essig wrote:
>
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > The submission deadline for OSCON 2004 is just 21 days away.
> > >
> > > I know that several people here were planning on presenting. So far we've
> > > heard from:
> > >
> > > George Essig: TSearch2 Presentation
> >
> > I still plan on giving a talk on tsearch2. I will submit the proposal to O'Reilly before the
> end
> > of the month. Work approved the conference, and Oleg Bartunov, an author of tsearch2, said he
> > would give me some advice.
> >
> > George Essig
> >
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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