Xapian devel - Nov 2005 - submitting a xapian entry to the FreeBSD ports collection

Hello,

Would anyone object to my submitting an entry for xapian-core to the
FreeBSD ports collection ? This would make it even easier for any FreeBSD
user to install a xapian-based application.

By the way, it does not seem quite right that xapian-core 0.9 will install
commands with such generic names as 'copydatabase' or
'simplesearch' to
/usr/local/bin by default. Either a renaming or a configure option to
control the installation for the examples directory would be really nice.

Would you accept a patch to allow configure to disable the building and
installation of the examples directory (ie: --disable-examples) ?

Regards,

J.F. Dockes

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:58:17AM +0100, Jean-Francois Dockes
wrote:
> Would anyone object to my submitting an entry for xapian-core to the
> FreeBSD ports collection ?
Quite the contrary!

Let me know when you have a URL and I'll add it to the download page.
> By the way, it does not seem quite right that xapian-core 0.9 will install
> commands with such generic names as 'copydatabase' or
'simplesearch' to
> /usr/local/bin by default. Either a renaming or a configure option to
> control the installation for the examples directory would be really nice.
I didn't think we were installing the simple* examples (they're not
really useful as tools, only as example code), but it seems we are.  I
think we should just stop installing them.
> Would you accept a patch to allow configure to disable the building and
> installation of the examples directory (ie: --disable-examples) ?
I think delve and quest are useful to install.  Probably copydatabase too,
since it does allow you to combine databases and copy a database to a
different format (e.g. quartz to flint, or muscat 3.6 to quartz).

I've no objection to renaming copydatabase to xapian-copydatabase or
something else less generic.

Cheers,
    Olly