Xapian devel - Jun 2016 - Coding period - 1st week progress

Hello devs,

I've updated my project timeline till the mid-term evaluation up on
https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC2016/Clustering
I'd like to outline what I've done till now and problems that I am
currently facing so that I can overcome them with the suggestions.

According to the timeline, I had planned to finish the implementation of
the classes that will be used to handle formation of document vectors and
other classes which will be required by the Clusterer later.

I've done it in a way roughly similar to the previous clustering branch in
places where I thought the approach was the best way. (Formation of TF-IDF
vectors)

I am currently left with defining the ClusterSet class which will be done
soon.

I have made two files named cluster.cc and cluster.h. cluster.h is placed
in xapian-core/include/ and cluster.cc is placed in xapian-core/cluster.
The problem I am facing is, I cannot figure out how place this in the
makefile and build it to test the code that ive written. Could anyone
please help me out with this?

Thanks
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:32:16PM +0530, Richhiey Thomas wrote:
> I've updated my project timeline till the mid-term evaluation up on
> https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC2016/Clustering
That's great -- can you also please remember to update your journal,
which is an important part of evaluating how you're doing. (Both for
you and for the mentors!)
> I have made two files named cluster.cc and cluster.h. cluster.h is placed
> in xapian-core/include/ and cluster.cc is placed in xapian-core/cluster.
> The problem I am facing is, I cannot figure out how place this in the
> makefile and build it to test the code that ive written. Could anyone
> please help me out with this?
In order for someone to help you, it'd probably be helpful if you
committed your changes to a branch and pushed up to github. You also
should fill out the REPO LINK on trac so people can find it easily.

Broadly speaking, to add a new subdirectory to the xapian-core build
(which is what you're doing) you need to add an `include
<dir>/Makefile.mk` line to xapian-core/Makefile.am, and also add the
`Makefile.mk`; the one in `xapian-core/weight` should give you a good
idea of how to tackle this.

If you haven't already, please note that you'll probably want to use
PIMPL for some of the API classes, which probably means internal
headers (in `xapian-core/cluster`) that are in the `noinst_HEADERS`
list. (Again, `xapian-core/weight` has an example of this.)

J

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  James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
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