Re: A question about project " Lua bindings for Xapian"

On Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Olly Betts wrote:
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:33:13PM +0800, xiaona han wrote:
> > I am interested in the project "Supporting another language(Lua)". It
> > difficulty is medium-hard. Then my question is: How many lines of code does
> > it need to implement this project? I found some code in other languages
> > binding is generated by SWIG. Then what part of code do we need to write,
> > and what part of code are generated by SWIG?
> 
> If you look at the code in the version control system (either svn, or
> the git mirror) it should be clearer as none of the generated files
> are checked in (whereas the tar files we distribute include the
> generated files for convenience).
> 
> If you look at one of the languages where the wrapping has been done
> in a natural way, you should see the sort of thing to aim for. Python
> is probably the best example of this (but ignore the *3.py files which
> are mostly generated from the *2.py files by the Python 2to3 tool, with
> some manual tweaks to work around issues with that tool).
> 
> Cheers,
>  Olly
> 
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Hey,

I just wanted to follow up and see if there were any more questions about getting started. I'd really like to
see this project happen.

--Dan