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

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:14:20PM +0000, Richard Boulton wrote:
> 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.

I don't use Ruby except for the work I've done on the bindings.  I'd be
delighted if someone better versed in the language wanted to take over.

There was discussion of a Ruby Gem in the past - see here, and the
earlier thread linked to from there:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.general/6278

Cheers,
    Olly