Re: Feature discussion: Search field and local search engine

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

>>> - Can search with only frontend components (no backend needed)
>>
>> These are probably not necessary, unless it makes your life easier for
>> the purposes of implementation.
>
> Do you think we need to also support search engines that use a backend
> software ?
>
> It's a possibility, but it would mean more search engines to evaluate
> and more work to support the two scenarios (full static and static page
> + dynamic search engine).

In other words, it will make life easier for you to limit to
frontend-based search engines. So, feel free to limit your search to a
subset of search engines :)

Note that we are not really looking to actually support all these
engines. From my point of view, the screening you need to do simply aims
to design search engine support in such a way that it is *not
impossible* to add support for an arbitrary search engine. We may
actually support (out of the box) a single engine. The key is to allow
interested users use other engines. If they have to write some Elisp to
do that, it is fine.

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