From: Olly Betts <olly@...>
Date: 2006-04-25T21:21:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Beta Ruby bindings for Xapian available

Paul Legato <plegato@nks.net> writes:
> Hmm.. Actually, I'm hoping to roll the Ruby bindings back into the main 
> Xapian tree soon. Then, we can use the xapian-devel mailing list, and 
> Xapian's existing bug tracking system. I will ask the Xapian maintainers 
> how they feel about when this should happen.

If you're done with the initial development work, I'm happy to integrate
them.  We have a list of requirements for new bindings (a version of the
"smoketest", documentation, examples but you've already met those anyway).

If you're still making major changes, it's probably better to hold off
since we like to keep the SVN version in a releasable state as much as
possible.  But I gather that's no longer the case.

> If they don't want to 
> integrate it until it's production worthy (a perfectly understandable 
> position), I will set up an interim rubyforge project.

The changes are sufficiently self-contained to not break the other
languages, so I think it's reasonable to integrate them but flag them
as "new" or "beta" or something like that.  Shipping them with the other
bindings will hopefully get more people to try them than having a separate
download would and that's what's needed to shake out any problems.

So just let me know when you're ready.

Cheers,
    Olly (Xapian Developer)