On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 19:05:43 +0100 Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org> wrote: > Debian Code Search is a search engine for program source code within > Debian. > > It allows you to search all ≈ 17000 source packages, > containing 130 GiB of FLOSS source code (including Debian > packaging) with regular expressions. It's pleasingly quick, which is always good. Might need to be able to exclude the debian/ directory from searches. > You can use the search engine at http://codesearch.debian.net/ > Here are a few sample queries: > • http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=workaround+package%3Alinux > • http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=XCreateWindow > • http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=AnyEvent%3A%3AI3+filetype%3Aperl > > The corresponding thesis (and source code, of course) will be released > soon (2013-01-15 being the deadline, but I hope I can do it > earlier). > > I hope you find it useful and would love to hear your feedback. First thing which occurs to me is that I'd prefer a summary page as the entry point for the search results - listing package, version and possibly a link to the PTS, possibly the number of hits for that package/package+version. First thing I've needed to do with every search result so far is find a relevant package within the results. The search results (and any summary page) should probably be sorted by package name too - I'm getting results from packages starting with m before package names starting with e. Maybe extend the keywords to allow regexp matching on package names? Another important step would be a way of excluding matches within comments from the results. The filetype seems a little confused in places too. Searching for things in filetype:perl I get matches in debian/control and debian/copyright. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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