Hy,<br><br>everybody thank you for your reply. This is really kind of funny, because Francis (the guy who asked last year) was the maintainer of the plugin I am leading at the moment. Hehe, that's how things go, and the idea isn't a new one.<br>
Ok, I've never written a Ruby Gem but I'll ask some people and maybe someone is interested plus has the knowledge to do so. Maybe (and hopefully) I can organize something to build and maintain a Gem version of Xapian and its bindings.<br>
<br>But it is very good to know who is in for what, and I'll definitely contact Olly again for that reason.<br><br>I shall come back here soon ;)<br><br>In the meantime, have fun and keep up your good work!<br><br><br>
Cheers, Lukas<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/21 Olly Betts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olly@survex.com">olly@survex.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:14:20PM +0000, Richard Boulton wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 05:04:49PM +0100, Lukas Rieder wrote:<br>
> > Could you please tell me who is the maintainer of the Xapian Ruby bindings?<br>
><br>
> Currently, there isn't an "offical Ruby maintainer" - that is, someone<br>
> dedicated to improving the Ruby bindings and fixing problems with them.<br>
><br>
> Olly is probably the closest thing to such a maintainer. The Ruby bindings<br>
> are produced in xapian-bindings using the same SWIG framework that the<br>
> python, C#, php, etc bindings are produced from. Olly occasionally applies<br>
> patches to xapian-bindings to fix problems with these, but as far as I<br>
> know, he's not using Ruby in earnest.<br>
<br>
</div>I don't use Ruby except for the work I've done on the bindings. I'd be<br>
delighted if someone better versed in the language wanted to take over.<br>
<br>
There was discussion of a Ruby Gem in the past - see here, and the<br>
earlier thread linked to from there:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/6278" target="_blank">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/6278</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888"> Olly<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>