[Xapian-devel] Getting to grips with code

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Sat Feb 14 11:23:52 GMT 2015


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:00:36AM +0530, Anirudh Vemula wrote:
> Can anyone point me to the files where stemmers are implemented in the
> code? After an initial search, I came across 'stem.h' which provides
> the class structure for any stemmer implementation, but couldn't find
> any stemmer implementation file. 

Take a look in the 'languages' subdirectory of xapian-core.

You'll probably find 'git grep' very useful for finding your way around
the source code - e.g. 'git grep french' will quickly show find you
stuff related to the french stemmer.

> P.S. I got Xapian 1.3 built on my machine (Ubuntu 14.04) and have
> already gone through the 'getting started' guide, which I must say is
> very informative and great.

Good to hear.

Cheers,
    Olly



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