[Xapian-devel] A beginner in "Posting list encoding improvements"

James Aylett james-xapian at tartarus.org
Wed Feb 12 12:18:08 GMT 2014


On 12 Feb 2014, at 08:55, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> For GSoC projects, I'd recommend developing on Linux, or another
> Unix-like platform.  I think everyone who has so far expressed an
> interest in mentoring uses Linux or Mac OS X, so we're much better
> placed to help with development on such platforms.


If you're on Windows, the way of doing this is to virtualise (either VirtualBox, which is free, or VMWare, which isn't but you can sometimes find prepackaged VMs which work with their free version). I'd recommend using a recent Ubuntu (13.04 or 13.10) for preference, although 12.04 (which is the Long Term Support version) shouldn't present too many pain points.

If you need help, I can probably be of assistance. Keeping track of which commands you type (eg by using script(1)) is a good idea if you're unfamiliar with linux and think you might run into problems.

J

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