Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions

[Mike Warren]

Tom Chance <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. I mean, you'd have
> to have a database to search from, because there's no way you could
> run as search of filenames, or the contents of the file (that would
> take AGES!).

Perhaps this makes it more clear:

  http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?GNEArchitecTure

> So you'd have to have a large collection of, say, XML files with a
> databse that can be searched and will refer to these. What we're
> sayins is why not just have the articles in the databse too?

Because there should be more than one classifier, and all classifiers
should refer to the same article repository.

> It makes it faster, it is quicker to alter articles (if we feel the
> need in the future), it is easier to convert it into any other type
> of databse in the future, and it saves a lot of hard drive space
> too!

How does it save hard-drive space? 

> Where do you find that unique-ID?

I've suggested sequential large integers. Imram has suggested MD5
hashes.

> You go the the web site and search for say "canoes". What will be
> searched?

The database of whichever classifier you're using. I've perhaps not
made this as clear as I might; hopefully the longer description posted
at Wikipedia helps...


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