It had been written....
>> He would like some
>> volunteers to hack the python code to be more efficient or something,
>> but I don't know python.
All true.
Sounds more like it needs rewriting in a more
efficient language to me
(isn't Python interpreted? Probably not a good choice for search
indexing!)
No, not a different language.. the entire mailman software is python
based.
Unfortunatley I'm not a python programmer. But I'm not about to switch
packages.
I can't imagine the indexing code's *that*
complicated - I expect it's the
search side and how to quickly find results in the masses of data that
tends to be the tricky part.
The indexing and searching code isn't mailman
anyway, so the problem has
nothing to do with mailman. The indexing and searching is done by htdig.
If the dictionary is static then files can be indexed
as they arrive
rather than the whole archive needing scanning every x hours to keep
indexes in sync.
Some one tell the guy who wrote the mailman/htdig integration
piece.
A big chunk of the problem is that the complete text of all archives for
both cctalk AND cctech is done every night. A rather huge task. CCtalk and
CCtech will be combined at some point in the near future anyways (I know, I
keep saying that, but it'll happen).
Jay West