[Xapian-discuss] 1.0 news, and a call for testing

[Reini Urban]

We have a long weekend until Wednesday and I'm on a business trip until
Thursday but I will try it with the full dataset at Friday. (cygwin)

2007/4/27, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>:
> Our aim was to get Xapian 1.0.0 out this month (April 2007).  We aren't
> quite going to manage that, but the wonders of a self-imposed deadline
> mean we're now getting really close.
>
> The main things left to do are some work on indexing and query parsing
> (which I'm currently in the middle of) and some work on the Python
> bindings (which Richard is working on).
>
> The core library has an extensive test suite, and the bindings each have
> test suites with varying degress of coverage, and these are currently
> all passing except for a problem with the (newly supported) remote
> backend in the MSVC build which is being investigated.  But it would be
> great to have some real world testing to shake out any lurking problems
> now, rather than 2 days after we release 1.0.0!
>
> So I'd like to encourage you all to download snapshot tarballs from SVN
> trunk and try your applications with them:
>
> http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/trunk/
>
> Note that unfortunately flint databases from 0.9.X aren't compatible
> with SVN trunk (I'd like to provide a "flint upgrade" utility, but I
> want to get 1.0.0 out first) so for now build a fresh database when
> testing the snapshots.  Flint is now the default database, so
> "XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT" is no longer required).
>
> I'm about to leave for a long weekend, but send any feedback in to the
> list and I'll read it on Tuesday.
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