[Xapian-devel] Bindings for a Scheme implementation?

[Dan Colish]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Dan Colish <dcolish at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
Oops, there's also Chicken support in swig.
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