Subject: Re: Plans for aptitude 0.5.0 - 0.6.0.
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.aptitude.general
Date: 2008-10-10 04:12:36 GMT (38 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours and 32 minutes ago)
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:02:28PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows <at> debian.org> was heard to say: > Anyway, the rewritten search engine is now on par with the old one, > as far as I can tell, although it's only hooked up to "aptitude search". > The next steps are: > > 1. Implement Xapian support for real -- shouldn't be too painful, > I hope. This is done. > 2. Implement some new patterns to manipulate the set of versions > being examined (the "pool"); I left room for this while redesigning > the match process but didn't actually implement them. Deferred to the next version. > 3. Overhaul the documentation to more carefully explain how searching > work now. I'll look at this over the weekend. > 4. Implement that GUI editor (it shouldn't be hard to get a basic > skeleton with poor UI, now that the backend data structure is > more transparent). Deferred to the next version. I've also hooked up the new searching code to all places that use aptitude's searching. This also means that patterns which search for a name without using ~n or ?name will break (as the current aptitude manual warns). Hopefully, after I update the documentation to reflect the current state of play, I can work on some more user-visible stuff this weekend. Daniel