[Xapian-devel] Bindings for a Scheme implementation?

[Dan Colish]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:32 AM, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org>wrote:

> On 1 Dec 2011, at 13:10, Olly Betts wrote:
>
> >> Are there any (SWIG) bindings for implementations of the Scheme
> >> programming language?
> >
> > Not really.  There used to be some SWIG-based guile bindings for Xapian,
> > but they were never really complete and we eventually just removed them
> > as it had reached the point where it would be less work to start again
> > than to try to fix them up.
>
>
> Sven — I was partly responsible for trying to get the guile bindings
> usable, so I have some interest in this. Which scheme implementation would
> be most useful for you to have Xapian bindings for?
>
> J
>
>
The best implementation to target is one supported by swig. That makes the
choice pretty simple since there is only one, MzScheme/Racket. I would
personally like to see a Clisp binding as well.

--Dan
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