Thomas - have you had a look at PyLucene and how they do the gcj/SWIG
wizardry? What kinds of issues did you encounter with gcj? Perhaps
Andi Vajda from PyLucene could offer some advice?
I'd rather see the gcj/SWIG approach moving forward so that SWIG
Lucene doesn't lag behind Java Lucene where all the innovation happens.
As for Lucene4C versus CLucene and moving CLucene to Apache - I'll
let the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list discuss it. I'm happy to have CLucene at
Apache too, though it seems simpler for us to only house a single
implementation in C. The gcj version would be ideal in my mind, but
I'm also not skilled in gcj (and haven't touched C in decades,
practically) - so it certainly is up to the actual coders where to go
with it.
Erik
On Aug 8, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Brian McCallister wrote:
At ApacheCon EU I roped one of the most productive developers
(Thomas Dudziak) I know (who also has SWIG experience =) into the
Ruby/Lucene thing. Anyway, he's had little success with gcj and
lucene4c thus far (lucene4c isn't quite complete enough, and as
Garrett knows (and said he's working on) kind of tough to build.
Anyway, Thomas went and in an afternoon put SWIG bindings around
CLucene =)
Now, the more fun part, Ben (whose email I don't have) of CLucene
would like to move the project to Apache =)
Thoughts?
-Brian
On Aug 8, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Thomas Dudziak wrote:
Hi,
after much tinkering and installing/reinstalling gcc/gcj (3.4.3 and
4.0.1) I finally got a combo of ruby+swig+gcj to compile, only to be
stopped dead by a internal compiler error of GCJ. I honestly don't
know why this works for PyLucene (which btw. I didnt' get to compile
because the mac version of Python is 2.3 whereas PyLucene seems to
require 2.4).
And then yesterday by chance I spotted a mail by Ben van Klinken on
the SWIG mailing list who is the lead developer of the CLucene
project
(http://clucene.sourceforge.net/), a full C++ port of Lucene. So I
fired up an email to him and he told me that they've rewritten
CLucene
to be easily usable with SWIG (currently he's doing a C# and COM
wrapper for CLucene) and they already have more or less the
functionality as Lucene 1.4.3.
So I decided to give it a try, and after about half an hour I not
only
had CLucene compiled and linked, but also a basic SWIG ruby wrapper
around one of the helper classes of CLucene (compared to about a week
for the same using gcj).
The interesting thing now is that they'd like to move to Apache, they
even proposed incubation
(http://clucene.sourceforge.net/incubatorproposal.htm) though they
seem to be missing a sponsor (Erik didn't answer as far as I could
see
on the Lucene dev mailing list).
I'd very much like to use CLucene as the basis for the ruby binding
(and Ben is quite willing to help with any SWIG wrappers and C++
issues), so my question is: could you talk to Erik as to whether it
would be possible to accept the incubation proposal (via
sponsoring by
the Lucene PMC) ? From what I saw so far of CLucene, I might be able
manage to create a ruby binding of the querying in August, which
would
be a good start for the RubyLucene repository.
