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Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages


From: Cook, Malcolm
Subject: Re: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 20:31:37 +0000
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A few quick thoughts –

 

  • There should be a link documenting the search language.  Are there Booleans allowed?  Is “stemming” automatic?  Do quote characters do anything?  Is proximity searching available?  Regular expressions?  What columns are searched?  License?  Version? Author?
  • Immediate feedback of hits as you type is “nice”.  IMO suggested completion of search times is nicer.
  • Browsing alphabetically by picking a letter provide little to no value
  • Full detail of hits in columnar format is preferred over “cards”

 

Still lurking myself but loving the improvements….

 

Go Guix,

 

~Malcolm

 

 

From: Guix-devel <guix-devel-bounces+mec=stowers.org@gnu.org> on behalf of Daniela Lura <danielaluraa@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 1:50 PM
To: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: [Guix Website] A Search Page for Packages

 

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Hello everyone, 

 

This is Danjela, the Outreachy intern at the Guix Data Service. 

 

Taking into consideration the suggestion made in this thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-05/msg00096.html, my mentor, Christopher Baines suggested me to write a script that serves a search page for packages using the search functionality within the Guix Data Service, https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/latest-processed-revision/packages?search_query=git&field=version&field=synopsis&after_name=&limit_results=100

 

The prototype page can be accessed through a test version of the Guix website that Chris deployed: http://guix-website-test.cbaines.net/packages/search

 

I'd like to know if you find the page useful so that I can hopefully start working on incorporating the search functionality into this page: https://guix.gnu.org/packages/

 

Best Regards,

Danjela


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