Re: Ada in polluted WWW searches

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> wrote in message 
news:871se4rzm3.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk...
> Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>> Tom Moran and I built the Ada-wide search engine to "solve" this
>> problem -- it indexes all known Ada sites. It doesn't work as well as
>> it used to because a lot of sites have switched to HTTPS which we
>> can't index yet. (I need to find some time to fix that; I have *soooo*
>> much spare time ;-).
>
> Is the source for the indexing engine available?  Maybe somebody could
> be tempted to submit a patch, such that it also can handle HTTPS.

Unfortunately, it's not. We built it out of spare parts laying around, and I 
never found time to figure out the licensing on those. Another job for the 
copious spare time. :-)

I do plan to work on that project this summer after the Lisbon ARG meeting 
(it's tied into a long-running project to get the various servers off of 
Windows, to use more modern hardware and not cost $$$).

                                                                    Randy.