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search README.md ? #9

Closed bjarthur closed 9 years ago

bjarthur commented 10 years ago

the package descriptions are frequently redundant with the names, and sometimes neither are informative. would it make sense / be easy to search the documentation too?

WestleyArgentum commented 10 years ago

This would be great!

pwl commented 9 years ago

+1 for this, at least there should be an option to search package description (many packages names don't reflect their functionality). Do you want to solve a differential equation? No luck, because searching for "differential" doesn't return any results.

IainNZ commented 9 years ago

You can search package descriptions right now - just use the search functionality in your browser.

As for searching READMEs, I don't think its as good an idea as you might think as many important packages don't use their READMEs like that, e.g. https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFrames.jl

pwl commented 9 years ago

I didn't know it was intentional. It would be cool if it worked like I described though, I suppose some people (including me) could be mislead this. And then, why do you need the search function at all when you can find everything using a browser?

IainNZ commented 9 years ago

I'm thinking of removing the search by name too - it seems fairly redundant. Theres a more general package discovery problem right now, and the solution isn't so much sorting as categorizing/tagging - theres been some discussion but no one has dedicated the time to getting it off the ground yet.