Bug#256283: pylucene-dev Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2
>The value of a naked gcj-compiled lucene package is limited [...]
>because of the GC issues
Are you sure? Do you think a naked gcj-compiled lucene package would
be valuable for people creating swig bindings for languages such as
OCaml, Perl, PHP[1], etc.? Do you think C application programmers who
want to use lucene are better off using CLucene[2] instead of a gcj
library? Why did pylucene choose the latter?
>gcj compiling a java package is pretty trivial
It's not trivial for everyone. I don't currently know how to use gcj
to create a shared library. Also, if a naked gcj-compiled lucene
library is useful, I can imagine other Debian packages in the future
will need it as a dependency.
>I can help you with non Debian-specific PyLucene or GCJ issues. What
>do you need ?
I have almost no gcj experience, and have never worked with a gcj
shared library. I need your (Andi) help with the judgement call as to
whether this is worthwhile or not. Upsteam wasn't too excited about a
naked gcj lucene library, but maybe Doug just wasn't thinking about
enabling C programmers and swig programmers. My current feeling is to
wait for gcj-3.5 to reach Debian then revisit. I did notice that
compiling the lucene demo executables using gcj works great, and I am
tempted to ship those right away.[3]
>So Jeff what can I do? I already build and install pylucene on several
>Debian machines with every new version but it's been a couple of years
>since I've made a Debian package. Could you crank one out if I gave you
>build instructions and dependencies?
I will not crank out a pylucene package myself. I am willing to help
you (Jeff) produce the package if you are interested. That means I
will answer questions, review the package, and sponsor both it and you
into the Debian project. Please look at an existing Debian python
package (such as python-medusa) before tackling. There are also good
opportunities to improve the java lucene package[4][5] in Debian. It
seems very likely to me that java lucene will be a pylucene build
dependency in the future.
Cheers,
Jeff
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg09552.html
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg09089.html
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272295
[5] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272301
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