htdig w/ 1.4 vs. 2.0

[F@lk Brettschneider]

Hi,

Steven Suson wrote:
> 
> Hi Ralf,
> 
>     Thanks for the response; hope this finds you doing well.
> 
>     First of all, perhaps a little background information is in order:
> 
>         Red Hat 7.1
>         XFree86 4.0.3
>         Kernel 2.4.7
>         KDE 2.2
> 
>      KDevelop 1.4 gave me my first experience of a totally flawless indexing and use of the
> documentation; always in the past there where little (and generally well known) glitches, but it was
> possible to work around them. I have changed nothing whatsoever, but the behavior is completely
> different. First it could not find the htdig.conf. Browsing the code ("Use the source, Luke"), I
> discovered that it was looking in /usr/share/apps/kdevelop/tools. From here I wondered onto the
> README.htdig, and became sort of shocked.... It spoke of installing several files under this directory,
> of patch htdig (!), adding completely new options to the htdig.conf file, etc... When I attempted to
> follow all of these instructions (except the patch part), it appeared to index my qt docs, and for
> whatever reason, /usr/src/linux/include???? And.... no KDE docs indexed.
> 
>     When I get back on this, I'll send you some of the output.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steven Suson
> "Keep the faith."
> 
> Ralf Nolden wrote:
> 
> > On Montag, 27. August 2001 21:46, you wrote:
> >
> > Hi Steven,
> >
> > though I don't know what your exact problem is, the htdig at least on SuSE
> > works fine here. We did have a little change during the 2.0 development there
> > but it surely should work with your htdig.conf file. The problem with htdig's
> > only root access is that the database is located in the area on the
> > filesystem where only root has access. I'm no htdig expert so I can't tell
> > for sure what's going on but I think KDE has had problems with htdig in the
> > helpcenter as well if you want to go for htdig's full capacity. Please let us
> > know which problems you have exactly so we could gather a little group that
> > could take care about those issues and simplify them for 3.0; if there is
> > something known not working due to the kdevelop code we can influence, then
> > we can fix up 2.0 before it ships as 2.0.1 with KDE 2.2.1 :)
> >
> > Thanks for the info anyway,
> >
> > Ralf
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > >     I am somewhat at a loss. With kdevelop 1.4, I had to nothing
> > > whatsoever to htdig. Now w/ 2.0, I have a complicated list of
> > > modifications, including even the apparent necessity of patching htdig.
> > > Not only that, it is not readily apparent to me how a user might have
> > > his own "private" htdig database, and thus only root will be able to
> > > maintain the htdig db (indexing new things). My biggest puzzle is why it
> > > got harder, rather than easier.
> > >
> > >     One way or another I must resolve this. Once I've done so, I'll
> > > probably package (RPM) up something like "kdevelop-htdig". Has anyone
> > > done something like this already? Any guidance, etc. would be much
> > > appreciated.
I can't remember that anyone did changes to that between 1.4 and 2.0.
Although I haven't got experience with htdig...

Ciao,
F at lk

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