[aur-general] The search engine needs improvements

[Loui Chang]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:50:45PM -0800, Olivier Duclos wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:09:39 +0100
> Pierre Chapuis <catwell at archlinux.us> wrote:
> 
> > Le Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:55:39 +0100,
> > Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > 
> > > But then again, rar is probably a corner case. I have personally never
> > > ran into that problem in all the searches I did on AUR so it is
> > > probably not a big deal :)
> > 
> > Ever tried to search vi? :)
> > +1 from Just Another User on Xavier's suggestion to do the same as in viewvc.
> > 
> 
> I think it would be a great new feature, but still I think that if we have an exact match, it should be shown first.
> 
> I've quickly modified Find.php to do that. At line 261, I changed the if block to :
> 
> if ($pattern || ($type != 'php' && $type != 'perl')) {
>     while (list(,$entry) = each($data)) {
>         if ($match_function($pattern,
>                             $fullpath ? $entry : basename($entry))) {
>             if ($entry == $pattern) {
>                 array_unshift($matches, $entry);
>             }
>             else {
>                 $matches[] = $entry;
>             }
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> Of course, this only works if $pattern correspond exactly to what the user has typed, which I am absolutely not sure. Anyway, don't you think it's a good idea ?
 
Unfortunately Find.php has nothing to do with searching for packages on
the web. It's really just a copy of http://pear.php.net/package/File_Find.