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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 08, Arwed von Merkatz [v.merkatz AT gmx.net] wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:17:38PM +0100, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 of March 2007 19:58:20 Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:29:55PM +0100, Andra?? 'ruskie' Levstik 
> > > wrote:
> > > > My few questions for the grimoire nominees.
> > > >
> > > > a) New grimoire features like keywords and other sich things.
> > > >    What do you plan on doing about them and any other new
> > > >    features?
> > >
> > > Most of the time, new features available to the grimoire get picked up
> > > by most through word of mouth and the commit list. Obviously this didn't
> > > work for keywords, though I think the main reason for this is that
> > > there's no actual use for them so far. scribe can create an index of
> > > them, but no one does anything with the index.
> > > So what needs to be done is to get some tools use keywords to make them
> > > actually do anything. A first step would be to have a gaze search
> > > -keyword, listing all spells for a keyword.
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10703
> > 
> > Like Andrew said, the problem lies in the keyword index not being there.
> 
> Well, gaze could still have implemented a search functionality without
> the index being in the official grimoire.
> That said, I'm looking into having a devel sorcery installed to my home
> on the box that creates the grimoire to create the keyword index, as the
> main sorcery on that box doesn't have reindex-keyword.

We should probably extract the function to something standalone we can run
for now until that function gets to at least test.  If we have that or an
equivalent I can get it into the tarball script (which really needs to get
committed to a repo at some point...).

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