[Xapian-discuss] Spaces in bool prefixes

[Richard Boulton]

Rick Olson wrote:
> Is there any near-future plans in the roadmap for one of the primary 
> Xapian developers to resolve that feature request (perhaps in 1.1[.x] 
> branch), or is it on the back-burner until necessity demands it?  If 
> it's not feasible for any of the usual developers to get to it in the 
> near future, and if no work has been done on it yet, would a preliminary 
> conceptual patch be accepted for consideration for further development?

It's on the back-burner until necessity demands it, like so much else... 
  A preliminary patch would certainly be useful - best thing is to add 
such a patch to the bug, and we'll discuss it there.

> I think that either way, I will have to implement a solution to handle 
> this because of our requirements specifically with FILTER stuff.  Since 
> the queryparser's functionality is something we rely on, and is 
> seemingly fundamental to Xapian, us branching it off internally is not a 
> very good idea and would cause me many headaches, so any solution that 
> could make it into the official core would be very much appreciated, 
> whether on your end via a normal release schedule or ours via a 
> functional patch.

We'd definitely like to have a solution for this - and any patch that 
you can supply will help (even if we don't choose to apply it, it'll 
help us develop a patch that we are happy to apply).

-- 
Richard