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Revision as of 20:31, 10 March 2009

Strigi and Beagle are too slow. locate does not give enough information. locate does not work across the network. Swish++ is fast enough though to implement a really complete whole-system search solution. I even used it that way once at a previous job. (It must be native code, not Python/C#/Java etc!)

Here are the features I want:

  • index ALL files, not just my home directory
  • include symbols in libraries (.a and .so)
  • use plugins or external parsers to convert unsupported things (like Word documents and PDFs) to text for indexing (this is the Swish++ approach)
  • the client can search only the local machine, or can distribute the same query to a collection of machines on the network, and aggregate results, showing where the found documents are located
  • security features like slocate (users can optionally not be allowed to search files they aren't allowed to read)
  • re-index files as they change (get notifications via inotify or something)
  • cross-platform (Linux, Mac and Windows) (on mac maybe just tie into spotlight, make the database available across the net)
  • search text in open xterms/rxvts/konsoles too (often I have way too many of them open and forget what I was doing where)
  • maybe quickie searches (for applications, or text in open apps) should be a different UI than searching for documents etc.

Of course it needs to integrate into the "universal command line" some day. (link suggestions show up as you are typing)