[Kbabel] DB search engine

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Hi Andrea!

Excelent news!

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Andrea Rizzi wrote:

> Hi all,
> I finally started the db search engine rewrite.
> I have more or less prepared the DB access framework, it is more readable than
> the previous one. 
> We will depend on Berkeley DB C++. Actually I'm linking against version 3 but 
> we may decide to use version 4 (I think v.4 is not yet distributed as a 
> standard).

Version 4 is distributed quite a lot, at least Red Hat 8 and SuSE 8.1 
supports 4.0/4.1.

> 
> I may need few more feature in the SearchEngine API.

Probably no problem.

> 
> I'll commit it to HEAD cvs and put is as "not compiled by default" as soon as 
> I have something working.
> If you need special new features ask now please (e.g. some more info about 
> translation stored).

Nothing I can think of right now.

> 
> I also implement an internal (i.e. built up automatically)  one-word 
> dictionary but I would like to use also external one-word dictionary (e.g. 
> user defined or babylon dict) so we may decide to create an API for that kind 
> of dictionaries. That dictionary will be very important in the "not so fuzzy 
> automatic translation(tm)" I will implement.

Do we need a special interface for this? Maybe it should be just a 
prominent kbabeldict module accessible by kbabeldictbox.

Stanislav