Re: timescale of 'search-linuxkb'

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

> v0.6 will give applet-writers as many of the search engine's capabilities as
> possible. It will grow with the search engine, hopefully reaching v1.0 by
> March.

Your time table looks great!

> Desktop applets will talk to search-linuxkb using the API (which will be
> well-documented). I've written very few UI-based apps for Linux, so I'm
> hoping other programmers will write the applets & use search-linuxkb as
> their API. (I'll write an anyway: I need the practice.)

I'm in total agreement.

> I was going to write search-linuxkb in tcl, which would have allowed for a
> tcl/tk interface very easily. However, I have more experience with C, so
> I'll probably use that. I'm still in two minds about it, actually.
> (Comments/suggestions?)

If it were me, I'd use C.  A clearly documented API will make it easy to
interact with in any toolkit, and the advantage of doing it in tcl would
only help those who choose to write the applet in tcl.  

Either way, is of course fine... this is all IMHO :).    

> Eventually, there will be an RPM for search-linuxkb.

I get excited just thinking about downloading a search-linuxkb rpm some
day :).  

> IMO, LinuxKB is a really cool project. :-) I'm looking forward to
> contributing.

Thanks Hugo!  We're happy to have you contributing.  What your doing
sounds great and exciting!

-- 
Jason
Linux Knowledge Base Project Leader
http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros