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

[Lukas Rieder]

Hy,

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.
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.

But it is very good to know who is in for what, and I'll definitely contact
Olly again for that reason.

I shall come back here soon ;)

In the meantime, have fun and keep up your good work!


Cheers, Lukas


2009/1/21 Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>

> 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
>
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