Re: get_docid???

On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 09:56 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 04:26:41AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > Thanks, but I'm just a little confused.  I thought all we had today were  
> > SWIG generated Perl bindings??
> 
> No.  Search::Xapian is hand-coded XS in 1.2.x (and earlier).  Since
> 1.2.4 there are also SWIG-generated Perl bindings in xapian-bindings,
> but we decided to make the final switch with a new release series, as
> it may cause minor incompatibilities with existing Perl code which uses
> Xapian.

The CPAN module is the hand-coded XS. You will need to build or get
packages for "xapian-bindings" to get the SWIG version.

Both versions live in the "Search::Xapian" namespace so you can install
one or other but not both.

/Tim.