On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 02:57:18PM +0200, Albin Stigö wrote: >> Ok so now I know whats involved... me to a bit put off by the build system >> :-) > > Heh. We're working on it. :)
Build systems in general make life difficult :) There are already to many of them... :) > > Lucy is easy to use, and has gotten easier over time as we've conscientiously > incorporated user feedback. Lucy is not necessarily easy to hack on yet, but > the > same forces that made it easy to use are at work, and eventually, Lucy *will* > be easy to hack on. > >> Maybe just porting it to objective-c wouldn't be so much worse..? > > Porting what to Objective-C, the Clownfish compiler? Other people are going > to be just as uncomfortable with Objective-C as some are with Perl. C itself > represents the only common ground. Only for my purposes that is... I definitely agree - C is common ground, and I don't there is a pure C full text search library. Well maybe sqlite fts3 but it's not only search. > > Marvin Humphrey > >
