[Xapian-devel] Xapian Ruby bindings as a Ruby Gem

[Richard Boulton]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 05:04:49PM +0100, Lukas Rieder wrote:
> Could you please tell me who is the maintainer of the Xapian Ruby bindings?

Currently, there isn't an "offical Ruby maintainer" - that is, someone
dedicated to improving the Ruby bindings and fixing problems with them.

Olly is probably the closest thing to such a maintainer.  The Ruby bindings
are produced in xapian-bindings using the same SWIG framework that the
python, C#, php, etc bindings are produced from.  Olly occasionally applies
patches to xapian-bindings to fix problems with these, but as far as I
know, he's not using Ruby in earnest.

> Is there such a project already?
> Is someone interested in working on this idea?

Not that I'm aware of.

Assuming a ruby gem is somewhat like a java jar, or a python egg, in which
case this sounds like a useful project.

-- 
Richard