Hello everyone, I'm very interested in packaging the Xapian Ruby bindings as a gem for easier installation and integration into Ruby projects. I came to this idea, because many Ruby developers face the problem of installing xapian under hosting service where they have no root rights. And Xapian is THE essential part of the Rails plugin acts_as_xapian, wich brings all the Xapian features to the Rails world. This plugin is maintained by me, Francis the creator has stopped development due to the lack of time. Could you please tell me who is the maintainer of the Xapian Ruby bindings? Is there such a project already? Is someone interested in working on this idea? Thank you very much, Lukas Rieder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20090121/59eaaa78/attachment.html>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 05:04:49PM +0100, Lukas Rieder wrote:> Could you please tell me who is the maintainer of the Xapian Ruby bindings?Currently, there isn't an "offical Ruby maintainer" - that is, someone dedicated to improving the Ruby bindings and fixing problems with them. Olly is probably the closest thing to such a maintainer. The Ruby bindings are produced in xapian-bindings using the same SWIG framework that the python, C#, php, etc bindings are produced from. Olly occasionally applies patches to xapian-bindings to fix problems with these, but as far as I know, he's not using Ruby in earnest.> Is there such a project already? > Is someone interested in working on this idea?Not that I'm aware of. Assuming a ruby gem is somewhat like a java jar, or a python egg, in which case this sounds like a useful project. -- Richard