Xapian devel - Dec 2014 - Working on project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015

Hello everyone!

I am Shashvat Tripathi, a student of BITS Pilani, India. (*LinkedIn
<http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shashvat-tripathi/3a/2a8/75b> | **Github
<https://github.com/shashvattrip>)*.
I recently heard about GSoC and wanted to apply through it. I was going
through this year's project proposals and a couple of them caught my
interest.

Support Another Language using SWIG


SWIG is completely new to me. However I did check out what it is and I find
it interesting. Also, I have a good understanding of Javascript and C# and
would likely be extending support for these only.

As of now I will be reading more about SWIG and will try to familiarize
myself with Xapian. Any pointers for me will be appreciated!

Cheers!

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*Shashvat Tripathi*

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On 23 Dec 2014, at 18:15, Shashvat Tripathi <shashvattrip at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am Shashvat Tripathi, a student of BITS Pilani, India.
> I recently heard about GSoC and wanted to apply through it. I was going
through this year's project proposals and a couple of them caught my
interest.
> 
> Support Another Language using SWIG
>  
> SWIG is completely new to me. However I did check out what it is and I find
it interesting. Also, I have a good understanding of Javascript and C# and would
likely be extending support for these only.
Hi, Shashvat ? thanks for your interest!

We have C# support via SWIG already (but there is scope for improving it; there
are some initial ideas on the projects list:
http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:CBindingsImprovements);
Javascript we have bindings for node
(https://github.com/mtibeica/node-xapian#readme) ? this hasn?t been worked on
now for a year or so, so there may be scope for improvement there also (binding
newer features of Xapian, or taking advantage of newer features of node.js).

A project proposal that combined the two might be enough work for a GSoC
project, but you?d need to give a fair amount of specifics of what work you?d
want to do. Alternatively, this might be a great opportunity to learn a new
language that SWIG supports directly! (We?ve had successful projects in the past
binding new languages from scratch, and I believe in one case with limited prior
knowledge of the target language.)

Best,
James

-- 
 James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
 xapian.org

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On 30 Dec 2014, at 12:30, Shashvat Tripathi <shashvattrip at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In the list of bindings offered, Javascript/NodeJS is not mentioned. 
> http://xapian.org/docs/bindings/
Yes, that?s an omission. It?s mentioned on our homepage.
> As you said, can we club these two language bindings into a single SoC
project?
You?ll need to come up with concrete things you want to improve about the
node.js bindings, as I said. Along with improvements to C# that might form a
good-sized project; I have limited experience with node (although plenty with
Javascript), and basically none with C#, so I don?t know what needs doing or how
much work it would be.

If it isn?t big enough for a GSoC project, you could combine language binding
improvements with something else from the projects list.

J

-- 
 James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
 xapian.org