From: Brian McCallister <mccallister@...>
Date: 2004-10-06T10:01:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Using CLucene

Did, he is the one who suggested I look into PyLucene ;-)

-Brian

On Oct 5, 2004, at 8:03 PM, vruz wrote:

>> I'm not a Real Programmer[TM] and don't have an idea about how you 
>> call
>> C++ from Ruby (I can't use gcc without explicit instructions, so
>> README.EXT is quite a hard read for me). It seems that you have to
>> write some kind of 'wrapper'.
>>
>> Or does that amount to 'porting Lucene to Ruby' already?
>
> There's a Ruby/Lucene project by Erik Hatcher, but it seems to be
> stalled, no releases so far, only available thorough cvs at:
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylucene
>
> Maybe you should mail Erik and ask him if he's still interested for
> team-up or you to take over.
> It'd be nice to have a tool like this.
>
> Swigging and writing an extension for something like this should be
> IMHO the second step after having a good understanding of how the
> thing works under the hood, especially if you claim not to be an
> experienced programmer.
>
> Anything, but please, No py-thing, please ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> -- 
> --- vruz
>
>