Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (124 mails)

[Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:42 +0100, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> It would be nice to index HACKING, README, possibly documentation still.

        I guess; makes it more complicated but ... ;-) I'm fairly convinced
beagle is not a tool for hackers to grok their source trees with. People
use 'git grep' for this, or they use a sane semantically informed search
- ctags or whatever. The sheer cost of diving down all those directories
is staggering.

> While I don't think it's a bad idea to short-circuit source code
> toplevels, I'm worried that a) it won't be enough

        No doubt - but it will at least help a lot for this use case :-) and
hopefully stop hackers griping about it.

>  b) I'm not convinced that people don't search source code for
> mentions of <foo>. I don't, but then, I don't use Beagle at all.

        Oh - sure they do, but the vast cost of indexing (eg.) all of the OO.o
source code, on the off-chance that someone wants to search for
something is too staggeringly large IMHO - there is a far higher risk
that people just turn beagle off - and thus get nothing indexed.

> Another, more sophisticated strategy might be to build a list of things
> to index and prioritize them, so that source directories come last and
> are indexed at a fairly leisurely pace. It's definitely more work,
> though.

        Yep - that might work too - though; really - I'm fairly certain that
source code directories are highly dynamic, take a lot of maintenance,
contain -tons- of stuff which (no doubt) balloons the index size, and
are not interesting in search results :-)

        HTH,

                Michael.

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