hi zubin , well , ya i think working on the code in its present state would be a good idea, i will get in to that once my exams are over, which are nearing by , ... i am actually very interested in working on Lucene .....
Thanks Satish On 4/11/08, Zubin Wadia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Satish, > > You can definitely lobby ASF to restart the project if you indicate > familiarity with the codebase and have general buy-in from the Lucene > community. > > I would begin by getting onto the general lucene Dev mailing list and feel > out what they think were the challenges and reasons behind Lucene C becoming > dormant. > > Additionally, nothing stops you from getting the current source tree and > working on it locally yourself (or with a team of your own fellows) and > perhaps make a tangible functional improvement or improve compatibility with > new versions of Lucene. > > Lobbying the ASF after demonstrating your ability to manipulate the current > source tree is MUCH easier vs. on merit alone. > > Another decent idea would be to innovate on the current trend of porting > Lucene to a language like say.......... Haskell :) > > Haskell is an interesting choice because it has an excellent extension > interface (Foreign Function Interface) to include C code: > > http://blog.danieroux.com/2007/01/01/simple-demonstration-of-haskell-ffi/ > > If you need some connections @ ASF, let me know. > > Cheers, > Zubin. > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Satish Eerpini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Namita, > > > > thanks for the links, i will keep u informed of the progress, > > would it be a good idea, if i had plans to revive the whole idea of > > porting Lucene in C, considering that i do not know anythign about the > > Lucene classes, and that i know considerably lesser C, but i am ready to > > learn, .... ? > > > > On 4/10/08, Namita Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <namita%40twincling.org>> > > wrote: > > > > > > eerpinisatish wrote: > > > > hi everyone , ... > > > > i have been looking at Lucene , and found out that a C api had been > > > > under development . The search library was ported to C , but i could > > > > not find anything more than that, could anyone throw some light on > > > > this ??? > > > > > > > > > > The C library development project for Lucene was officially closed > > > on 15th October, 2006 due to lack of activity. > > > > > > The sources are available at: > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucene4c/ > > > > > > You can find documentation about the APIs here: > > > http://incubator.apache.org/lucene4c/apidocs/dir_000000.html > > > (click on each file and see the functions and structures) > > > > > > You will have to try out the APIs to understand what they do and if they > > > work. Not many details in the documentation. > > > > > > Let us know how it goes. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
