Re: [MacPerl] Runtime aete Questions

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12.45 -0500 1999.02.11, Richard Gordon wrote:
>My biggest single gripe about MacPerl (or actually just Perl in general)
>is that
>there is such a vast array of documentation, modules, etc., that it is quite
>time consuming to even figure out where to start looking for some stuff. One
>thing that might be nice (if somebody had the time to do it) would be to get
>Sherlock plugins running with CPAN. Altho I haven't actually tried using
>it yet,
>the Mac Python guys have done this with Python resources and it seems like a
>really great idea (see bottom of page at
><http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html>.

Someone already wrote a plugin for reference.perl.com (although he said it
was for CPAN).  I had one for the WAIT engine.  But it doesn't work,
because Sherlock limits the URLs to 255 characters, and the resulting URLs
are significantly longer than that.  So this will give you results, but you
can't click on them.  Also, WAIT provides relevance, but Sherlock only does
0 to 100 for relevance, and WAIT does 0 to 1000.  There should be ways to
se "relevanceScaleBegin = 0, relevanceScaleEnd = 1000" or something.

And URLs should be allowed to be longer than 255 characters.

<search
	name = "WAIT"
	method = post
	description = "The CPAN Search Engine"
	action = "http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/cgi-bin/SFgate">

<INPUT NAME="application" VALUE=cpan>
<INPUT NAME="convert" VALUE=CPAN>
<INPUT NAME="database" VALUE=wait%2FDB%2Fcpan>
<INPUT NAME="detex" VALUE=1>
<INPUT NAME="formextern" VALUE=CPAN>
<INPUT NAME="multiple" VALUE=1>
<INPUT NAME="range" VALUE=1>
<INPUT NAME="verbose" VALUE=1>
<INPUT NAME="text" user>
<INPUT NAME="tie" VALUE=or>
<INPUT NAME="_lines" VALUE=whole+document>
<INPUT NAME="maxhits" VALUE=40>
<INPUT NAME="language" VALUE=English>

<interpret
	resultListStart = "Select some of the following documents"
	resultItemStart = "<DT>"
	resultItemEnd = "<DD>"
	resultListEnd = "</DL>"
	>
</search>


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