Re: A Web Interface for Apropos: http://man-k.org

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
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>> Am 10.04.2016 um 20:15 schrieb Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have been working on a web interface for apropos(1) and wanted to
>> share it with all of you: http://man-k.org
>>
>> There are still plenty of things to be done but I would appreciate any
>> feedback that you might have to improve it :)
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> You should have done that with bozohttpd’s Lua capabilities.
>
> Doing this in Python, given that we have Lua in base, in kind of lame.

Sorry for the disappointment.

I didn't know any Lua to consider it as a starting point for me. I had
to make few changes in apropos(1) as well and I wanted to push it
fast, so I went with Python which I knew best.

Plus, I didn't know there would be interest in keep a web application
like this in base.



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Abhinav