Re: [Pan-users] Statistical word analysis?

[Charles Kerr]

The gnome editor `gedit' has a lot of small plugins and therefore makes a
nice program to crib from.  AFAIK there's not a plugin HOWTO for gmodule
(the glib plugin utility) yet, but gedit does have a brief intro for
would-be gedit plugin writers.

> Thanks for providing a helpful answer (give me a break people - I am new
> to this - I thought we are supposed to be a community).
> 
> I have no programming experience although I know someone is willing to
> teach me - I was always thinking of a modular plug in anyhow.  Does
> anyone know of a related application on freshmeat / sourceforge related
> to this?  Perhaps some source code can be adapted as a plug in?
> 
> As for the issue of downloading all the newsgroup bodies - I could not
> give a flying f*#k - it is what my modem is there for.  What's it going
> to do anyhow?  Clog up net bandwidth?  Get real.
> 
> I will start searching the application archives.
> 
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 01:05, Charles Kerr wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:16:02AM +1200, mdew wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:39, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Or at the very least a job for a tool that specifically does analysis of
> > >> these things.  Dropping something like this in Pan for the ~10 people
> > >> who might ever use it seems a waste of the developers time and efforts.
> > > 
> > > The idea has its merits... Yes it would be handy feature, more of an
> > > extendable search, nothing too big.
> > > 
> > >> Remember UNIX - specific tool for a specific job.
> > > 
> > > Thats old-school Unix thinking, we "evolving" now...
> > 
> > Regarding the word analysis question: one would have to download all
> > the article bodies for all the groups being looked at before Pan could
> > do an analysis.  While this isn't a bad idea, it scores poorly anyway
> > because it would be a lot of work for something that not many users
> > will use.
> > 
> > Regarding one-tool-for-one-job: "Evolution" is a good example of the
> > GUI-level extension of this.  Evolution is a number of separate tools
> > that interoperate well, rather than a single monolithic app (like Pan ;)
> > 
> > If someone wants to contribute a word-count plugin to Pan, I'll put it
> > up on the home page.  I've been thinking of doing something like this
> > for libesmtp and gpg support too.
> > 
> > Though that's for _after_ 0.11.3 and 0.12.0. ;)