[Yum-devel] ranked multiterm searching

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 15:51 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > well, I was trying to get it to behave similarly to how google behaves.
> > 
> > ie: I ask for foo bar
> > 
> > and it gives me:
> > pages with foo and bar
> > pages with just foo
> > pages with just bar
> > 
> > we could add an argument to searchGenerator() to only return the results
> > that match every term. That'd be pretty easy.
> > 
> 
> I checked in what I had before and here's why.
> 
> I think if we want to do more clever things with what is returned and
> how many and when then we can do them from the calling function. Keeping
> searchGenerator as straightforward as possible.

an example of a caller do something for the searching:

http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/useful-scripts/simple-search.py

really simple, but does what a user would probably want.

-sv