Bug#446517: RFP: pinot -- search engine for local files based on Xapian

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


  Package name    : pinot
  Version         : 0.76
  Upstream Author : Fabrice Colin <fabrice.colin@gmail.com>
  URL             : http://pinot.berlios.de/
  License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : search engine for local files based on Xapian

Pinot is :

    * a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors
      them for changes.
    * a GTK-based user interface that enables to query the index built
      by the service and your favourite Web engines, and display and
      analyze the results.

Features

    * advanced queries (probabilistic search, boolean filters,
      wildcards, date ranges).
    * language detection.
    * listing of indexed documents.
    * editing of metadata.
    * documents labeling.
    * stored queries.
    * results ranking history.
    * results lists export.
    * dynamic document summaries.
    * only crawl and index the directories you choose.
    * D-Bus interface for easy integration with other applications, eg
      Deskbar Applet.
    * no dependency on GNOME or KDE.
    * support for common file types.
    * search your desktop and the Web.
    * query remote indexes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash