[Xapian-discuss] TCL Bindings

[Michael Schlenker]

Olly Betts schrieb:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:13:13PM +0200, Michael Schlenker wrote:
> 
>>Its odd if you come from a language like C,C++ or Pascal, Java, it gets 
>>more natural and easy if you come from the LISP side. Its lack of syntax 
>>makes it hard to learn for folks coming from C,C++ or Java, but it has 
>>very clear and abstract rules...
> 
> 
> Ah, I hadn't grasped it was LISP like.  That'll probably help me get my
> head round it, though I've not written LISP for years.
> 
> 
>>Is your tcl simplesearch in CVS? I could take a look at it and try to 
>>smooth the Tcl usage, if you want.
> 
> 
> That'd be great:
> 
> http://cvs.xapian.org/*checkout*/xapian/xapian-bindings/tcl8/docs/examples/simplesearch.tcl?content-type=text/plain
> 
> And less important, but the smoketest is here:
> 
> http://cvs.xapian.org/*checkout*/xapian/xapian-bindings/tcl8/smoketest.tcl?content-type=text/plain
> 
Ok, i took a look, it looks more ok, i fixed some usage patterns to more 
common tcl idoms, but otherwise its good. There is a little discussion 
about proper packaging for tcl in simplesearch.tcl included..., 
basically a pkgIndex.tcl file has to be added to make a proper package, 
but load as it is works too...

I don't have a built xapian around for testing right now, but just ask 
if there are any tcl packaging related questions around. The SWIG 
bindings are not world class, but doing a more natural binding would be 
just more work.


Michael
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