From 2408ab8192459871e1eee3c6ba343eccc1ae28fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dockes Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:09:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- src/README | 31 +++++++++++++------------------ src/VERSION | 2 +- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index 4ec30472..529cfa3a 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -1,7 +1,3 @@ - Back to jf's home page - - - * Screenshots * Downloads * Credits @@ -20,21 +16,22 @@ Recoll the Credits. Recoll is still in infancy, but it is based on a very strong backend - (Xapian), and it can actually be useful right now, which is why I release - it so early. You might be interested in using Recoll to index your home - directory instead of xapian's Omega, for example, if you do not want to - run a web server, or your data is not iso-8859-1. But the query features - are very, very, much weaker. + (Xapian), and I find it quite useful right now. You might be interested in + using Recoll to index your home directory instead of using xapian's Omega, + for example, if you do not want to run a web server, or your data is not + iso-8859-1. But the query features are much less sophisticated yet. See INSTALL inside the distribution for compiling and installing, very - much by hand for now, I hope it will become better in the near future. + much by hand for now, I hope things will get better in the near future. Features: - * Indexes text, html, pdf (with xpdf's pdftotext), postscript (with - ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with antiword), openoffice files, - maildir and mailbox mail folders (mozilla and thunderbird mail ok). - Deals with compressed versions of same. + * Supports the following document types: text, html, pdf (with xpdf's + pdftotext), postscript (with ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with + antiword), openoffice files, maildir and mailbox mail folders (mozilla + and thunderbird mail ok). Deals with compressed versions of same. + * Relatively powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, + filter on file types and directory tree. * Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses Unicode UTF-8. * Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after @@ -52,8 +49,6 @@ Recoll Things lacking, coming in the not too far future: - * A more sophisticated query interface: the current one has no boolean - capabilities. * A better GUI. So many things are badly done or missing that I won't try to list them here. * An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for @@ -111,7 +106,7 @@ Recoll Credits - Recoll is mainly glue code, and most of the intelligent work uses code + Recoll is mainly glue code, and most of the intelligent parts use code from external projects. Recoll borrows (steals?) heavily from the following projects. I tried to @@ -127,6 +122,6 @@ Recoll easy to find, it has been integrated almost unmodified in the Recoll package. * Iconv, for character set conversion. - * Binc IMAP for mail MIME MIME parsing code. + * Binc IMAP for MIME parsing code. jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr diff --git a/src/VERSION b/src/VERSION index eb49d7c7..d3827e75 100644 --- a/src/VERSION +++ b/src/VERSION @@ -1 +1 @@ -0.7 +1.0