Re: htdig and sources.redhat.com loadavg

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>]

Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

> >> (Everyone ok with shutting off gcc htdig permanently?)
> >
> >Works for me.  Anything which can't scan for '++' doesn't really help
> >for a C++ library mailing list.  Dunno how the rest of gcc feels.  :-)
> 
> If this was useful for other people, and didn't bring the system to its
> knees, then I wouldn't care. As it is, i think htdig is solidly in the
> negative side of things.
> 
> Personally, I think we should just recommend using google with
> 
> site:gcc.gnu.org

I find the feature of limiting the search to a particular date range
to be very helpful on the current pages.  It lets me track down the
e-mail message associated with a particular patch in a reasonable
fashion.  I don't know how to do that with Google.

That said, clearly htdig is problematic.  As others have said, we
probably need to use a new search engine.  However, that is going to
require somebody to volunteer to do it.

Ian