Re: Archives
- Posted by katsmeow 1 month ago
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Strange how this topic keeps coming up every few years. Being it's still a thorn in my side, i feel compelled to say something.
Praps you can look up the archive search i built somewhen in the 2000-2012 time frame, and set out live on the web and irc for a while. I'm sure it's obsolete now, as i never again downloaded and indexed all known OE source code after 2012. Some time shortly after that, i destroyed megabytes of source code and data, so i cannot re-supply any of it. This stopped the demands for uploading the archive and index database.
If you supplied an included search_file_name, it could return the filenames which that specified file included. Or it could return all the filenames which included the specified filename. There was also a mode which returned all the lines of code in the archive which called procedures/functions in the specified lib, the complete line of source code, which made it easy to see how that code was used by others. It took some time to index back then, imagine drilling down thru win32lib, and then searching for and writing out cross-links to every line of code in the archive.
To avert some belittlement, it was built the way it was because i could not afford webhosting the whole EU archive plus the prebuilt indexes. Plus, at the time i had six computers on the shelf here with almost a terabyte of hdds in each, so i could built it and host it here with almost no effort. At dialup speeds, i'd probably still be uploading those files, so i resisted posting them, when anyone could download and index the RDS site themselves. And, i was still tweaking it in response to requests. And then one day, when my practical decision was linked to bad morals and being anti-FOS while using a FOS programming language, i stopped writing code, and deleted it all.
And you still have no complete archive or file database, let alone an interesting search engine for it. It's just one line on the "Don't Have" list though.
But, in case i leaked a copy of the archive, minus the indexing code and index database, you'd have all the files mentioned on RDS as of that date, even if they had been hosted elsewhere off-RDS.
Kat
