[racket] FW: External connection to Finndesign Liitin

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 06:26, Jukka Tuominen
<jukka.tuominen at finndesign.fi>wrote:

> **
> Hi Rodolfo,
>
> I'm glad you liked it :)
>


I've been following your announcements. Your ideal is interesting.



>
> Unfortunately there's not yet a decent way to find out what's available.
> I've noticed the same need while 'dog-fooding' on the system, and have
> planned to approach it in two ways:
>
> - Provide an internal/external channel for people to make announcements (=
> web and/or posting list)
> - Add a search functionality atleast with free-text search on object name
> and content, and 'my history' options.
>


Maybe some kind of indexed and searchable repository would be nice. Then
this repository could provide an API to search for things.
For example one can do an "apt-cache search ..." to search APT repositories
from the console, as well as use a GUI like Synaptic to perform a similar
task.

> (take 2 (liitin:search "calculator"))
...

> (length (liitin:category "games"))
42



[]'s

Rodolfo Carvalho
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