Search for type names in dependencies
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 1.2k
- Forks
- 232
- Avg merge
- 11h 35m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 60
Description
From a Twitter discussion, quoting @GuillaumeGomez :
I think something feasible would be search between a crate and its dependencies. Merging the search-index files isn't very complicated (even with the minification!) but that'd require way too much space and computation. Something not too complicated would be to provide the dependencies search-index files when looking for "more".
Creating this issue so that we remember it in future and possibly implement it
(Context: Idea was suggested by @gilescope who wanted a functionality similar to Haskell's hoogle
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. First review docs.rs's existing search flow and how it handles “more” results, then investigate how dependency search-index files could be provided without merging them. Done means type names from a crate's dependencies can be found through search with acceptable space and computation costs.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100