On 6/1/06, Alex Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > What's the current status of the Windows port? I may be in a position > to lend a hand over the next couple of weeks - where should I start > looking?
Hi Alex, Thanks for your interest. I got Ferret to compile with Visual Studio Express 2005. Unfortunately you currently need to use Visual C 6 to create Ruby bindings. This proved a lot more difficult so I decided to take a different route. Marvin Humphrey (author of KinoSearch, a perl port of lucene) and I are about to start a new project at Apache called Lucy (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LucyProposal) which will aim to create a C port of Lucene that can be used as a backend in all dynamic languages. This time around, portability will be a much higher priority. Lucy may or may not one day become the back end to Ferret. At the same time I'm experimenting with some different options using the Ferret codebase. Now that Lucy is happening I'm not going to worry about Lucene index compatibility (which was currently still a long way off in Ferret due to Java's modified UTF-8 encoding). This experimental code is in; svn://www.davebalmain.com/exp This code is much more portable and will compile with VC6. So if you want a Windows port quickly you can try merging this code back into Ferret propper. Or if you are really interested in the libraries internals you could join me working on this experimental code or join Marvin and I on the Lucy project (still waiting on Apache approval). Whichever route you chose your help will be most appreciated. Let me know your thoughts. Cheers, Dave > And what's the best way to get SVN HEAD? This happens: > $ svn checkout svn://www.davebalmain.com/ferret/trunk ferret > svn: Can't connect to host 'www.davebalmain.com': Connection refused Sorry about that. Subversion is up and running again. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
