Re: Is it ok to distribute xapian index with Upstream Source file?
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Alexander Busorguin wrote:
> dualword is a foreign language vocabulary trainer. There is original
> index with words in
> /usr/share/dualword/index and user can create a copy in
> .dualword/index where user
> statistics is stored.
Sounds reasonable (and an interesting program).
I might be interested in sponsoring this, I'll look at your RFS mail
to debian-mentors when it gets sent.
>>How long does it take to generate the xapian index?
You didn't answer this query.
>>How large is the xapian index?
> I've started this project a couple of month ago and index is quite small ~1mb
It seems reasonable to ship that index in a binary package.
>>Do we have the tools to build the xapian index in Debian? I know we
>>have xapian in Debian but there may be some preprocessing tools needed
>>for passing data to xapian.
You didn't answer this question either.
> It's the reason why I'm asking. I'll have to make some changes if it's
> a requirement.
Unless there is a good reason not to, you should build generated files
at package build time (or runtime).
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pabs
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