TODO list
	
	
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	  Please see the file COPYING for
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	  Here is a list of things have been requested or that are in
	  the works. They in no particular order. Tasks that are
	  outstanding are designated with a square. Tasks which are
	  complete but not in the current production release yet are designated
	  with a circle, and tasks which have been completed and are in
	  the current production release are designated with a bullet.
	
	
	  Feature requests and bug reports are always welcome. They should
	  be posted on our feature
	  request and bug
	  tracking databases. If you'd like to make feature requests
	  or bug reports by e-mail, you can send them to the htdig-dev mailing list.
	
	
	  - 
	  Redesign the database backend to support additional enhancements:
	  
		- 
		Phrase searching
		
- 
		Field-based searching
		
- 
		"Collections" of multiple databases
		
- 
		Continual indexing
		
- 
		Parallel indexing and searching
		
 
- 
		Add support for BSDI make program
	  
- 
		Add support for different transport protocols 
		
		  - 
			Gopher
		  
- 
			FTP
		  
- 
			local filesystem
		  
- 
			HTTP-PROXY
		  
- 
		  HTTPS
		  
- 
		  HTTP/1.1
		  
 
- 
		Better Internationalization
		
		  - 
		  Support for UTF-8
		  
- 
		  Allow character translation (e.g. remove accents)
		  
 
- 
		Better examples of configuration and result templates
	  
- 
	  Eliminate or detect duplicate documents
	  
- 
	  Send one e-mail per author using htnotify
	  
- 
	  Allow "external converters," programs to perform some action on
	  files before parsing.
	  
	  - Compress, gzip, bzip2, zlib decoders
- DVI, TeX -> PS decoders
 
- 
	  Allow XSSI or similar expansion in search templates
	  
- 
	  AltaVista style +/- boolean queries
	  
- 
	  Support for browser cookies and a browser cache
	  
- 
		Search improvements 
		
		  - 
			Phrase searching
		  
- 
			New fuzzy search types 
			
			  - 
				Automatic spelling correction
			  
- 
				Trigram matching
			  
- 
				Regex word match
			  
 
 
Last modified: $Date: 2002/01/27 05:33:19 $