[Xapian-discuss] Re: quick-and-dirty web search for a bunch

[John Pye]

Fabrice Colin wrote:
> On 5/17/06, John Pye <john.pye at student.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>> BTW the quickstart.txt mentions running a command './omega' but this
>> doesn't seem to exist in the RPM either. So it's not very clear what to
>> do next...
>>
> This refers to the omega executable, installed in
> '/var/www/cgi-bin/omega'.
> Not sure whether this location is standard to all Apache setups...
I think that dedicated 'cgi-bin' folders are a bit unsual in these days
of php and python...
You might want to take a look at how ViewVC handles its installation of
cgi scripts, perhaps.

>> In fact 'omega' seems to be a command that ships with some other
>> package-- something to do with TeX. Cool... version pi :-P :-\
>>
> That's true. The RPM used to be called omega until we realized this name
> was used by another package :-)
Ok, so having the CGI called 'omega' is fine, but the howto should
perhaps make it clear that many users will already have a different
'omega' in their PATH. It certainly confused me for a little while :-)

Cheers
JP

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