Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Fri Sep 04 11:30:11 -0400 2009:

> Is this with a recent next, and after deleting any vestigal
> ~/.sup/xapian directory and .db files? If so, there really shouldn't be
> any label issues. If there are, can you attach the original exception?
> Also, does your sources.yaml file have something weird for labels?

It was with cdb1017, but I likely did have a ~/.sup/xapian directory
from previous attempts.  I'll try again tonight with that cleared out.

> > This got me to the point where I could fire up sup with
> > SUP_INDEX=xapian, but the initial poll caused the attached exception.
> > I wonder if LabelManager should simply call .to_sym (.intern) on
> > everything passed to it?
> 
> Certainly an option, but I'm hoping to keep the "fail fast" behavior for
> now since it is revealing underlying problems.

Ok, I think this is likely the best approach too.  Strings and symbols
have a somewhat special relationship in ruby though, so I thought it
might be ok to force a coercion in that case.  Lets make it the last
resort as you suggest.

Thanks
-Ben
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