TODO list

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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 release yet are designated with a circle, and tasks which have been completed and are in the current release are designated with a bullet.

• Start htdig with multiple start documents.
• Allow attribute references in the values of other attributes
• Abstract the database so that other database backends can be used. Currently only GDBM can be used.
  • Create a database class that uses GDBM
  • Add support for Berkeley DB
  • Add support for Oracle
• Merge multiple htdig databases together
• Add support for BSDI make program
• Better examples of configuration stuff
• Complete automatic installation
• Rewrite everything in Java
• Add more document parsers
  • External document parser support
  • PostScript
  • PDF
• Add support for different transport protocols
  • Gopher
  • FTP
  • local filesystem
  • HTTP-PROXY
• Parallel indexing
• Allow for external document parsing programs
• Add logging to htsearch
• Add support for non ASCII characters (translate them)
• Add a web-based (CGI) URL/server registration system
• Include several examples of result templates
• Binary release
• Search improvements
  • Phrase searching
  • New fuzzy search types
    • Automatic spelling correction
    • Trigram matching
    • Regex word match