[Xapian-devel] A question about project " Lua bindings for Xapian"

[xiaona han]

Hello all,

 I submitted the proposal: "Support Lua on Xipian". When you have time,
pleas take a look at it. Thanks.

2011/3/25 xiaona han <xiaonahappy at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>   I am getting started now. Most of time I used the IRC(Sabrina) to ask
> questions, which is a quick way to start:). Thanks for your attention.
>
>
> 2011/3/25 Dan Colish <dcolish at gmail.com>
>
>> On Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Olly Betts wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:33:13PM +0800, xiaona han wrote:
>> > > I am interested in the project "Supporting another language(Lua)". It
>> > > difficulty is medium-hard. Then my question is: How many lines of code
>> does
>> > > it need to implement this project? I found some code in other
>> languages
>> > > binding is generated by SWIG. Then what part of code do we need to
>> write,
>> > > and what part of code are generated by SWIG?
>> >
>> > If you look at the code in the version control system (either svn, or
>> > the git mirror) it should be clearer as none of the generated files
>> > are checked in (whereas the tar files we distribute include the
>> > generated files for convenience).
>> >
>> > If you look at one of the languages where the wrapping has been done
>> > in a natural way, you should see the sort of thing to aim for. Python
>> > is probably the best example of this (but ignore the *3.py files which
>> > are mostly generated from the *2.py files by the Python 2to3 tool, with
>> > some manual tweaks to work around issues with that tool).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >  Olly
>> >
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>> >
>> Hey,
>>
>> I just wanted to follow up and see if there were any more questions about
>> getting started. I'd really like to see this project happen.
>>
>> --Dan
>>
>
>
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