On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Brian Raven wrote:
Foo Ji-Haw <> wrote:
Hi people,
Stumbled on Marvin's well-reviewed search engine Kinosearch. I'd like
to try it out, but I'm more comfortable with a PPM version. Does
anyone know where I can get this ppm, or how much effort is required
to install-from-source (aka tar.gz)?
If it's a pure Perl module, or your environment is already configured
for building modules from CPAN (especially ones that require a
compiler), then it is not a great deal of effort. If can't find it, and
you don't have the resources yourself then might try asking nicely at
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppm-request.
I note from the doco that "KinoSearch is alpha test software. The API
and the file format are subject to change.".
I also note from the Activestate ppm build status
(http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-K.html) that KinoSearch
fails to build on Win32, Linux and Solaris because a dependency failed
its tests. It seems to build OK on Darwin.
Apart from the failed dependency, this package itself
also fails to build on Win32 when compiling several
of the .c source files. Some of the errors are simple
to fix (VC++ likes to have variables declared early),
but there's one error involving an incorrect number of
arguments to the read() function which seems to need
some major changes to fix.
--
best regards,
Randy Kobes
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