Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed manual pages

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed 
manual pages
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:16:24 +0200

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 02:10:03PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
 > I've looked at "makemandb" and I have to disagree unfortunately.
 > It is basically only designed to parse well structured manual pages.
 > "makewhatis" had the same problem a long time ago and I fixed it
 > in the course of two years by seriously enhancing the parser.
 > Somebody would have to port all that code to "makemandb".
 
 I may be slightly wrong (we should ask joerg@ or Upadhyay), but partially
 the power of the new tools stems from the existence of .Nm etc. (filtering,
 ranking algorithms, etc.). Given that now we have actual free form full text
 search.
 
  -Jukka