1 Xapian-bindings 1.4.8 (2018-10-25):
5 * Wrap new STEM_SOME_FULL_POS constant.
7 * Add STEM_ALL_Z to qpstem export tag and POD docs.
9 * Fix Perl bindings documentation typos.
13 * Fix RST formatting warning during build.
17 * Fix RST formatting warning during build.
19 Xapian-bindings 1.4.7 (2018-07-19):
23 * Fix -Wconversion-null warnings with newer GCC.
25 Xapian-bindings 1.4.6 (2018-07-02):
29 * Stop using "probabilistic" to mean "weighted" - we've supported other
30 families of weighting schemes since 1.3.2.
34 * Use https for tarball URLs in .spec files. This provides protection against
35 MITM attacks on people building packages using these spec files, and is also
36 slightly more efficient as the http: URLs redirect to the https: versions
41 * Use SWIG_exception() to handle exceptions. It seems this didn't used to work
42 with older SWIG, but it does with current versions, and using it means that
43 we skip any return value translation logic when an exception has been thrown.
47 * Use SWIG_exception() to handle exceptions. It seems this didn't used to work
48 with older SWIG, but it does with current versions, and using it means that
49 we skip any return value translation logic when an exception has been thrown.
51 * Fix leaks in binary std::string typemaps. These are used for document values
54 * Improve VPATH build. Previously we looked for class files and java sources
55 in srcdir first, then in builddir. That's backwards from how autotools
56 VPATH builds search for targets and prerequisites so reverse this order to
57 make handling of Java files more consistent.
61 * Invoke prove via the App::Prove module. This avoids potentially using
62 prove from a different Perl installation to perl (previously the user
63 needed to manually specify the corresponding PROVE= if they specify PERL= to
64 configure). In particular this is useful on macOS when using Perl from
67 * Improve Perl Enquire::set_docid_order documentation by syncing improvements
68 from the C++ API docs.
72 * Support sphinx >= 1.7 while still working with < 1.7. Patch from
75 * Suppress clang -Wdeprecated-register warnings about uses register in C code
76 in Python.h. We can't do anything about these other than suppress them.
80 * Support sphinx >= 1.7 while still working with < 1.7. Patch from
83 * Suppress clang -Wdeprecated-register warnings about uses register in C code
84 in Python.h. We can't do anything about these other than suppress them
85 (and they appear to have been removed in Python 3.4 and later).
87 * Remove unused MSet::__cmp__ extend method. This was used in Python 2, but
88 Python 3 does things differently. There doesn't seem a good reason to
89 provide comparison operations for MSet objects, and we don't for other
90 classes, so let's just drop this feature - it seems nobody has noticed it has
93 * Simplify generated wrapper post-processing.
95 Xapian-bindings 1.4.5 (2017-10-16):
99 * HACKING: Add details of Debian PHP7 packages to install for development.
103 * Use a pattern match to ignore methods meant for internal use only rather
104 than having to list them all - they're consistently named to end with an
107 * Stop using deprecated Xapian::percent typedef in bindings-specific code.
108 Deprecation warnings are suppressed when building the bindings (because the
109 bindings usually still need to wrap deprecated C++ features) so this probably
110 has no user-visible consequences.
114 * Fix JNI code to be compatible with Java 6 and earlier, where the final
115 parameter of SetByteArrayRegion() was not const. This also seems to affect
116 GCJ (though GCJ was removed in GCC 7). The incompatibility was introduced in
121 * Support subclassing of RangeProcessor in Lua.
125 * Add CLONE_SKIP to RangeProcessor and subclases to avoid double deletion
126 if the Perl threads module is in use.
128 * Keep references for set RangeProcessor objects, like how we do for
129 ValueRangeProcessor and various other functor objects.
131 * Use RangeProcessor instead of ValueRangeProcessor in perl examples, as
132 ValueRangeProcessor is now deprecated.
136 * Keep references for set RangeProcessor objects, like how we do for
137 ValueRangeProcessor and various other functor objects.
139 * Add type hints to QueryParser::add_rangeprocessor().
143 * Keep references for set RangeProcessor objects, like how we do for
144 ValueRangeProcessor and various other functor objects.
146 * Add type hints to QueryParser::add_rangeprocessor().
148 * Fix PHP7 "make check" to use right path separator. It was using the PHP5
149 one, which in general is going to be the same but we won't have probed for
150 that unless we're also building the PHP5 bindings, which means "make check"
151 failed for PHP7 unless you also had the PHP5 bindings enabled.
155 * Fix "make check" under Python 3.2, which was broken in 1.4.4 because Python
156 3.2 doesn't support the u'foo' syntax.
158 * Copy over Python2 check which aims to catch any internal functions, methods,
159 constants, etc which have accidentally been wrapped.
163 * Fix dependency generation for Ruby SWIG command (only relevant at all if
164 you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode).
166 Xapian-bindings 1.4.4 (2017-04-19):
170 * Update tests for xapian-core changes to avoid unnecessary "0 *" in query
171 descriptions in certain cases.
175 * Ship java.i in tarball.
179 * Handle object serialisations and document values as Java byte[]. These will
180 usually contain binary data, so Java String doesn't work well and byte[] is a
183 * Correct various errors in java examples and documentation on how to run them.
185 * Fix java examples not to abuse doc values as fields - use the document data
188 * "make clean" now removes additional class files.
192 * Update version of SWIG required to >= 3.0.12 so that the code generated
193 for PHP7 no longer results in a segmentation fault on module unload with
194 PHP 7.1. Fixes #748, reported by Victor Sakovich.
198 * Fix QueryParser methods add_boolean_prefix() and add_prefix() to accept a
199 string for the `grouping` parameter. Reported by Jameson Graef Rollins in
200 https://bugs.debian.org/849722
202 * Fix configure --with-python to fail if sphinx isn't found. Patch from
203 Patricio Paez. Fixes #749.
207 * Fix QueryParser methods add_boolean_prefix() and add_prefix() to accept a
208 string for the `grouping` parameter. Reported by Jameson Graef Rollins in
209 https://bugs.debian.org/849722
211 Xapian-bindings 1.4.3 (2017-01-25):
215 * Remove compatibility code for Python < 2.5 - 1.4.x requires Python >= 2.6.
217 * Avoid unnecessary pointer indirection in XapianSWIG_anystring() helper
218 function, which should be a little more efficient and makes the Python 2
219 code more closely match the Python 3 code.
223 * "make clean" should only remove docs/xapian.rb if configure option
224 --enable-documentation was used to enable all rules to rebuild documentation.
225 Reported by Samuel Williams on xapian-discuss.
227 * Fix make rule for running rdoc for the cases where srcdir != builddir.
229 * Use 'test a = b' rather than 'test a == b' - the former is portable, the
230 latter a bashism. In many cases the autotools will set SHELL = /bin/bash in
231 the makefiles, but if it doesn't and /bin/sh isn't bash, then this will
232 cause "make install" and "make uninstall" to fail for the Ruby bindings.
234 Xapian-bindings 1.4.2 (2016-12-26):
238 * configure: Fail with clear error with xapian-core < 1.4.0.
240 * Work around OS X "System Integrity Protection". We can't address the problem
241 of being unable to run tests against an uninstalled tree when the interpreter
242 is in a system directory (you have to "make install" in xapian-core for that
243 case), but we can at least make this work for interpreters which aren't in
248 * Disable parallel make for java subdirectory as it causes random build
249 failures. Reported by Lucas Nussbaum in https://bugs.debian.org/848733
251 * Disable automatic use of -Xcheck:jni for now as it seems to report false
252 positives with OpenJDK 8 and 9.
256 * Generates smaller PHP wrappers by only emitting each unique arginfo
257 combination once (~6% saving in stripped extension module size for
258 PHP7 on x86_64 Linux).
260 * Fix to work again with a version of PHP5 built with ZTS enabled (which is the
261 default on Microsoft Windows).
263 * Add support for PHP7.
265 * Drop workaround for PHP4 from test code.
269 * Handle sphinx-build being a shell script wrapper by invoking sphinx.main()
270 from a command line Python code snippet. Reported by Alex Dunn in
271 https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/126 and solved with help from James
274 * Hold python reference to set RangeProcessor objects - until #714 is fixed we
275 need to keep such a reference (as we already do for ValueRangeProcessor and
276 several other classes).
280 * Handle sphinx-build being a shell script wrapper by invoking sphinx.main()
281 from a command line Python code snippet. Reported by Alex Dunn in
282 https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/126 and solved with help from James
285 * Hold python reference to set RangeProcessor objects - until #714 is fixed we
286 need to keep such a reference (as we already do for ValueRangeProcessor and
287 several other classes).
291 * Use more conventional Ruby variable names in the examples (Ruby convention
292 uses underscores not camelcase) and fix comma/space transposition in a couple
295 Xapian-bindings 1.4.1 (2016-10-21):
299 * Fix --disable-documentation - in maintainer-mode, we still tried to make
300 docs/index.html for most of the bindings, which failed because the rule to do
305 * Update for additions to C++ API.
307 * When a backend is disabled in the xapian-core we're building against, we
308 have a stub version of any factory functions so the bindings still have
309 something to wrap. Update these for 1.4:
310 + Disable stub for InMemory::open() when
311 XAPIAN_BINDINGS_SKIP_DEPRECATED_DB_FACTORIES is defined (Perl, Python3).
312 + Add new optional flags parameter to both overloaded forms of
313 Remote::open_writable().
317 * Drop compiler options that are no longer useful:
318 + -fshow-column is the default in all GCC versions we now support
319 (checked as GCC 4.6).
320 + -Wno-long-long is no longer necessary now that we require C++11 where
321 "long long" is a standard type.
325 * Use a cleaner technique to insert the Java code to load JNI library into the
326 generated wrapper - we now use "%pragma(java) jniclasscode" instead of using
327 Perl to post-process the generated wrapper. Suggested by James Aylett.
329 * Run Java tests with -Xcheck:jni if supported, which should help catch any
330 any bugs in the JNI code.
332 * Fix configure to find jni_md.h under Cygwin. There doesn't seem to be an way
333 to automatically determine the machine-dependent JNI include path, so add
334 another case to use "win32" on Cygwin. Reported by John Bankert on
337 * Add more special cases to find jni_md.h on Cygwin, OS X, *BSD, AIX.
338 There doesn't seem to be an explicit list of these directories anywhere, but
339 grepping the OpenJDK 8 source code finds additional values "darwin" and
340 "aix", *BSD seems to use "bsd", and Cygwin uses "win32" (reported by John
341 Bankert on xapian-discuss).
343 * Generate xapian.jar rather than xapian_jni.jar - the fact that JNI is
344 involved is really just an implementation detail.
346 * SmokeTest.java: Add simple test of subclassing FieldProcessor.
350 * Merge Perl POD doc improvements from Search::Xapian. The most notable
351 improvement is a number of methods previously lacking docs now have them.
353 * Fix typo in POD docs for Perl bindings ("outputing" -> "outputting").
354 Reported by knowledgejunkie in #730.
358 * Fix repr() to not return None. Reported by Stuart Prescott on IRC.
360 * Fix Python2 bindings to work out of the box. SWIG changed the code it
361 generates for importing the compiled module in a recent version, and
362 the newer code no longer works with the wrapper renamed to
363 xapian/__init__.py. There's currently no way to configure SWIG to produce
364 what we need so for now we run a "fixup" script over the generated wrapper
365 which replaces the complex import code with a single statement which does
366 what we want. It also strips out various unneeded code, mostly to do with
367 handling Python 3.x (which we don't need since we have an entirely
368 separate set of bindings for that). Reported by James Aylett in #731.
369 The way we were importing the bindings to generate the .pyc and .pyo
370 files was masking this problem, so rework that as suggested by James.
372 * Make sphinx docs dependent on SWIG wrapper. Without this dependency,
373 parallel builds (make -j) may attempt to schedule the sphinx doc build before
374 the relevant wrapper has been compiled and moved into position. This won't
375 result in a build failure, but will silently omit API docs that sphinx
376 would otherwise include. Patch from James Aylett.
378 * doxy2swig: Specify encoding when reading doxygen's XML output so UTF-8 in
379 doxygen comments is handled. Patch from Vivek Pal.
381 * Specify Python2 wrapper encoding is UTF-8. This is needed when we pick up
382 doxygen comments from the C++ API which contain UTF-8. For Python3, the
383 default source encoding is UTF-8, so we don't need the equivalent change
388 * Fix repr() to not return None. Reported by Stuart Prescott on IRC.
390 * Fix Python3 bindings to work out of the box. SWIG changed the code it
391 generates for importing the compiled module in a recent version, and
392 the newer code no longer works with the wrapper renamed to
393 xapian/__init__.py. There's currently no way to configure SWIG to produce
394 what we need so for now we run a "fixup" script over the generated wrapper
395 which replaces the complex import code with a single statement which does
396 what we want. It also strips out various unneeded code, mostly to do with
397 handling Python 2.x (which we don't need since we have an entirely
398 separate set of bindings for that). Reported by James Aylett in #731.
399 The way we were importing the bindings to generate the .pyc and .pyo
400 files was masking this problem, so rework that as suggested by James.
402 * Make sphinx docs dependent on SWIG wrapper. Without this dependency,
403 parallel builds (make -j) may attempt to schedule the sphinx doc build before
404 the relevant wrapper has been compiled and moved into position. This won't
405 result in a build failure, but will silently omit API docs that sphinx
406 would otherwise include. Patch from James Aylett.
408 * Fix memory leak converting string from Python to C++.
409 XapianSWIG_anystring_as_ptr() was failing to flag the returned value as
410 allocated, so it wasn't being deleted. Reported by Sean Robinson in #729.
412 Xapian-bindings 1.4.0 (2016-06-24):
416 * Mark SWIG-generated Java and Perl bindings as "experimental" until we've
417 had a chance to sort out any remaining changes we want to make.
419 Xapian-bindings 1.3.7 (2016-06-01):
423 * Remove long out-dated reference to tinderbox.
427 * Use SWIG 3.0.9 to generate the bindings. There's nothing very important to
428 us in the changes since the git snapshot we were using - mostly this means
429 we're using a released version, which seems preferable.
433 * Fix segfault in tcl bindings "make check". The location of tclConfig.sh
434 wasn't being found, so libtclstub wasn't being linked to, which is required
437 Xapian-bindings 1.3.6 (2016-05-09):
441 * Update for changes to the C++ API.
443 * Use WritableDatabase::commit() instead of flush() in testcases, as the
444 latter is now formally deprecated.
448 * Fix syntax error in SmokeTest.java, introduced by the DB_BACKEND_INMEMORY
449 change. Noted on #xapian-discuss by Aakash Muttineni.
451 * Update Java TODO list.
453 * SmokeTest.java: Port over version checks from SmokeTest.cs.
455 * Update list of recently tested JDK versions.
459 * Note Lua bindings work with Lua 5.3.
463 * Explicitly specify POD docs encoding as utf8. Fixes warning in generated
466 * Convert POD to HTML when building from a source tarball - the conversion
467 code comes as standard with Perl. In 1.3.5 we were failing to ship the HTML
468 output, as reported by Anthony Basile.
470 * For extra robustness, convert POD to HTML using the bundled Pod::Html module
471 from the Perl interpreter found by configure, rather than assuming pod2html
472 is on PATH, and the right one (this matters more now that it's not just
473 people building from git who build these docs).
475 * Improve Perl bindings POD documentation.
477 * Remove workaround for Perl macro vs C++11 header. SWIG 3.0.6 and later adds
478 a different workaround to the generated C++ wrapper file, and we require SWIG
479 3.0.8 for a Python fix, so we no longer need our workaround.
483 * Fix "make check" in VPATH build. Nothing seems to have changed in our build
484 system, so I'm guessing this is now required due to a change in the code SWIG
489 * Fix "make check" in VPATH build. Nothing seems to have changed in our build
490 system, so I'm guessing this is now required due to a change in the code SWIG
493 * Fix install location for python3 docs. They were being install to the same
494 path as the python docs - now the path includes "python3" instead of
499 * Increase minimum Ruby version to 2.1, as older versions are no longer
500 supported by the Ruby developers.
502 Xapian-bindings 1.3.5 (2016-04-01):
504 This release includes all changes from 1.2.23 which are relevant.
508 * Fix to install docs when not in maintainer-mode.
510 * Note open_stub() is deprecated (most of the bindings already noted this, but
511 now ruby and tcl do too).
515 * Update for changes to the C++ API.
517 * PostingSource is now fully wrapped for the bindings. Fixes #499, reported by
520 * Ship swig-depcomp and doxy2swig scripts in the source tarball.
522 * Add installcheck-local make targets for most languages - these run the
523 testsuites using the installed bindings.
527 * configure: Stop checking for obsolete mono compiler names - gmcs, smcs and
528 dmcs were all deprecated in Mono 2.11.
530 * configure: Strip out handling of DotGNU - it's been inactive for years, and
531 was officially "decommissioned" in December 2012.
533 * README: Update list of mono versions recently tested with.
537 * smoketest.lua: Fix to work with newer lua - coercing a number to a string
538 now appends ".0" for whole numbers.
542 * Run pod2html with explicit --podpath=. - recent versions of pod2html seem to
543 need this to correctly handle references to other Xapian classes. Reported
544 on #xapian-discuss by HowManny and abhishek_rand0wn.
548 * Run sphinx at build time. It's an extra tool for people building from source
549 to have to install, but its output is rather large (this change reduces our
550 tar.xz size by ~20%), and its output includes a source-less minified copy of
555 * Run sphinx at build time. It's an extra tool for people building from source
556 to have to install, but its output is rather large (this change reduces our
557 tar.xz size by ~20%), and its output includes a source-less minified copy of
560 * Fix handling of integer values larger than a C int by bootstraping with a
561 newer version of SWIG. Fixes #703, reported by Barry Warsaw.
563 * Remove xapian.inmemory_open() - we've deprecated the corresponding C++
564 function, and the Python3 bindings haven't yet had a stable release.
568 * Run rdoc at build time - it is included as part of the Ruby core
569 distribution, so we can assume it is available if ruby is, and avoid shipping
570 its rather large generated output in our source tarball.
572 Xapian-bindings 1.3.4 (2016-01-01):
574 This release includes all changes from 1.2.22 which are relevant.
578 * Wrap new and changed features in C++ API.
580 * PostingSource set_maxweight() is now accessible to the bindings. Fixes #498,
581 reported by Richard Boulton.
583 * configure script now defaults to looking for xapian-config-1.3. This is now
584 automatically done for development series (odd middle component of the
585 version number), but not for stable series (even middle component). Fixes
586 #695, reported by Jorge C. Leitão
590 * Make PHP 5.5 the minimum officially supported version, as 5.4 has now reached
593 * In the examples, when iterating an MSet with foreach, don't throw the docid
594 away as $dummy, put it in $docid and use it - the code looks cleaner, and
595 this avoids an extra call to C++ to get the docid on each iteration.
599 * Drop support for Python 2.5.
603 * Document installation of Python 3 bindings. Fixes #694, reported by Jorge C.
606 * Fix testsuite for changes in Python 3.5. Fixes #690, patch from UsusDei.
608 * Handle renaming of .pyo to .opt-1.pyc files due to PEP-0488. Fixes #689,
611 * Fix Python 3 version check to accept 3.10.
613 Xapian-bindings 1.3.3 (2015-06-01):
615 This release includes all changes from 1.2.20-1.2.21 which are relevant.
619 * INSTALL: IRIX is past EOL so drop information about IRIX make.
623 * Add DB_RETRY_LOCK as a constant to wrap.
625 * Don't wrap Query::LEAF_* - they're for internal use in xapian-core.
627 * Fix "make install" from a git tree configured with --disable-documentation.
628 (Fixes #658, reported by Germán M. Bravo)
630 * Fix "make install" when building from git with --disable-documentation.
632 * Fix to handle a VPATH build from a tarball when the generated docs will be in
635 * Update testcases for lazy wildcard expansion change in xapian-core.
637 * Update for addition of XAPIAN_NOEXCEPT.
639 * Don't wrap internal methods of Xapian::Weight.
643 * Require a compiler with good C++11 support, like xapian-core now does.
645 * doxygen_xml.conf.in: Update to avoid warnings about obsolete tags from newer
648 * configure: Update check for -fvisibility to match xapian-core's.
652 * Fix configure test for whether $CLI can run CSharp programs - previously it
653 would always fail, which would mean that the CSharp tests wouldn't be run on
654 platforms where CSharp programs can't be run directly.
658 * java/docs/examples/SimpleSearch.java: Update to actually build and work.
662 * The Lua bindings are no longer considered to be "experimental" (in reality
663 they haven't been for some time).
667 * Add a "LICENSE" section to the main POD.
669 * Add 'use strict' to all testcases, and add missing instances of 'my' that
670 this change uncovered.
672 * Wrap new WILDCARD_LIMIT_* constants as constants.
676 * Don't release the GIL when constructing a Query object from a sequence of
677 Query objects and/or strings.
679 * python/smoketest.py: Add new testcase to catch any internal functions,
680 methods, constants, etc which have accidentally been wrapped.
684 * The Python3 bindings are no longer considered to be "experimental".
686 * Don't release the GIL when constructing a Query object from a sequence of
687 Query objects and/or strings. (fixes #346)
689 * python3/pythontest.py: Expand comment about disabling test_import_star under
694 * Require Tcl 8.5 as older versions are no longer supported upstream, and this
695 version added ::tcl::pkgconfig, which makes the configure tests simpler and
698 * Adjust precedence of the typecheck typemap for wrapping constructing a query
699 from a Tcl list so that we disambiguate this from the new OP_WILDCARD
700 constructor correctly.
702 Xapian-bindings 1.3.2 (2014-11-24):
704 This release includes all changes from 1.2.16-1.2.19 which are relevant.
708 * Convert HTML docs to reStructured text. (Patch from Mayank Chaudhary)
710 * Update for deprecation of Xapian::Chert::open().
712 * Update for renaming of "brass" backend to "glass".
714 * Remove SVN "$Date" placeholders as they aren't expanded by git, and the "last
715 updated" information isn't all that informative anyway - there can still be
716 stale information even if the file was updated very recently.
720 * Releases and snapshots are now bootstrapped using a more recent version of
721 SWIG (a git snapshot from after the 3.0.3 release).
723 * configure: Fix SWIG version check to accept 3.x, and update the minimum
724 accepted version to be what we actually currently want.
726 * Wrap new C++ API features, and in particular all the new weighting schemes,
727 the changes to opening databases, and Xapian::Snipper.
729 * Wrap Xapian::Database::check() for the bindings ignoring the std::ostream*
730 argument which the C++ API takes. If opts != 0, then output is sent to
731 stdout, otherwise no output is produced.
733 * Object descriptions are now always valid UTF-8. (see #620)
735 * Provide a SimpleStopper constructor which provides the ability to initialise
736 from a stopword list in a file. Based on patch from Assem Chelli.
740 * README: Note that C# bindings now need .NET 2 or later (because that's what
741 SWIG-generated code now requires).
745 * Add testcase that FLAG_SPELLING is now wrapped in a usable way. Patch from
746 Anish Kanchan. (see #616, reported by "Naveen")
750 * Document that constants can now be accessed using CLASS.CONSTANT as well as
755 * Move the new SWIG-based Perl bindings into a 'Xapian' module, to smooth the
756 overlap with the hand-coded XS 'Search::Xapian' module.
758 * Perl tests are ordering-dependent, so use .NOTPARALLEL to avoid problems
759 during parallel builds.
761 * Use croak_sv() or ERRSV if defined.
765 * Make PHP 5.4 the minimum version we officially support, as 5.3 has now
768 * Wrap Xapian iterator classes as PHP iterators - requires PHP 5.5 for full
769 support, under PHP 5.4 you can't use `foreach ($it as $k => $c)`, but
770 `foreach ($it as $c)` works and allows iterating through the equivalent of
771 C++ operator* on the iterator. (fixes#652)
773 * Fix handling of an exception thrown from a PHP implementation of
774 FieldProcessor::apply().
776 * smoketest.php: Add tests of get_eset() with an ExpandDecider and with a min
779 * In current PHP releases, dl() is disabled in most SAPIs, and even where
780 available it will now only look in the configured extension directory. The
781 upshot is that there no longer seems to be a sane way to install the PHP
782 bindings without being root. Fixes #661, reported by Felix Ostmann.
786 * The python testsuite already tested if any constants weren't marked with
787 the CONSTANT macro in xapian-headers.i, but the resulting error didn't
788 clearly point to the actual problem. Now we report the names of any
791 * In the testsuite, use the xapian.WritableDatabase constructor rather than
792 chert_open() - that code dates back to when chert was the only disk-based
793 backend to support valuestreams, but flint was the default backend.
795 * Fix typo in code to keep a reference to a FieldProcessor object, reported by
796 Germán M. Bravo in github PR59.
798 * Generate Python API docs with Sphinx. (Fixes #138, patch from Assem Chelli)
802 * Python 3 support has been split off into its own subdirectory, and should now
803 be usable. 3.2 is the minimum supported version currently. Existing code
804 will need updating for Python 3, and the wrapped API is necessarily different
805 in how Unicode is handled, so we've dropped deprecated features (such as
806 'MSet.items' and 'ESet.items') from the Python 3 bindings. (see #346)
808 * Fix typo in code to keep a reference to a FieldProcessor object, reported by
809 Germán M. Bravo in github PR59.
811 * Generate Python API docs with Sphinx. (Fixes #138, patch from Assem Chelli)
815 * configure: Don't prefer ruby1.8 to ruby when looking for a ruby interpreter -
816 these days it's more likely to ignore ruby 1.9 or 2.0 rather than avoid
819 Xapian-bindings 1.3.1 (2013-05-03):
821 This release includes all changes from 1.2.10-1.2.15 which are relevant.
825 * HACKING: Document Debian packages needed for each language.
829 * Wrap new C++ API features.
831 * Use new XAPIAN_NOTHROW markers in C++ API headers to avoid generating
832 unnecessary exception handling code where we call such functions and
835 * Tweak wrapping of Query from list constructor so the needed number of
836 elements get preallocated.
838 * Ignore Query(Query::Internal&) constructor, which is for internal use
841 * For all languages except C# and Java, wrap the functions declared in
842 xapian/dbfactory.h by getting SWIG to parse the header. This means we now
843 wrap the WritableDatabase form of Xapian::Auto::open_stub() for these
846 * swig-depcomp: Script which wraps invoking SWIG, tells it to generate
847 dependencies, and adjusts the generated dependencies to work in our build
850 * Remove support for 'configure --enable-quiet', 'make QUIET=' and 'make
851 QUIET=y' - automake now supports 'configure --enable-silent-rules', 'make
852 V=1' and 'make V=0' which are broadly equivalent and more standard.
854 * Fix the tests to work with the new automake parallel test driver.
858 * Improve workaround which allows building against an uninstalled xapian-core
859 on OS X - this should now work with any uninstalled xapian-core (not only in
860 a tree with the same layout as an SVN or git checkout) and it also won't try
861 to build against "../xapian-core/.libs" just because it happens to exist.
866 * configure: The variable to specify the interpreter is now CLI (was MONO, but
867 didn't actually work properly).
871 * Document that we aim to support JDK 1.6 (Java 6) and later.
873 * Avoid generating a temporary C++ vector of Query objects when constructing
874 a Query from a Java array of Query objects or a Java array of strings.
876 * Implement and test MSetIterator, ESetIterator. Fix PostingIterator,
877 ValueIterator, and TermIterator.
879 * Add Enquire.getMatchingTerms().
881 * Use JAVACFLAGS when running JAVAC to allow extra flags to be specified when
882 building, e.g. "make JAVACFLAGS=-g".
884 * java/SmokeTest.java: Avoid using System.err.printf() which fails to compile
885 with (the rather elderly) ECJ 3.3.1.
889 * Fix PostingIterator wrapper to work.
891 * Update list of unwrapped things in POD documentation.
893 * Improve test coverage.
895 * perl/t/10query.t: Adjust regexp which checks expected error message to work
896 with Perl 5.16, which adds a '.' after "at foo line 123". (ticket#610)
898 * Probe for the test running tool 'prove' in configure.
902 * Avoid using zend_error_noreturn() as it doesn't work with all builds of PHP.
903 Instead we now wrap it in a SWIG_FAIL() function which we annotate as
904 "noreturn" for GCC to avoids warnings. This also reduces the size of the
905 compiled PHP module by 6%.
907 * php/smoketest.php: Add more tests of geospatial API.
911 * Drop support for Python 2.4.
913 * python/smoketest2.py: Add more testcases.
915 * python/smoketest2.py: Improve reporting of test failures for certain
918 * Update Python 3 tests from Python 2 versions using 2to3.
920 Xapian-bindings 1.3.0 (2012-03-14):
924 * In maintainer builds, run doxygen to generate XML for the bindings in the
925 bindings build system, not as a side-effect in xapian-core's. (ticket#262)
929 * Wrap new geospatial API.
931 * Wrap new database checking API.
933 * Deprecated features scheduled for removal in 1.3.0 have been removed.
935 * Wrap ExpandDecider even if we don't have director support - there's a
936 ExpandDeciderFilterTerms subclass which is useful in itself, though it still
937 needs some typemap work to actually get it usefully wrapped.
941 + Add --disable-visibility option to match xapian-core.
943 + Add -fshow-column for GCC.
945 + Don't put -Werror in SWIG_FLAGS - instead put it in a new SWIG_WERROR
946 variable, so that it's easy to override it if you're getting a new warning
947 from SWIG but want to just ignore it for the time being.
949 * Exception handling now uses Error::get_description() rather than get_type +
950 ": " + get_msg(). In many cases this is the same, but if context or errno
951 are available, get_description() includes them. Catch and report
952 std::exception rather than handling it as an unknown error (so in particular
953 std::bad_alloc will now be reported more helpfully).
957 * Avoid generating unwanted wrapper sources
958 SWIGTYPE_p_std__vectorT_std__string_t.cs and
959 SWIGTYPE_p_std__vectorT_Xapian__Query_t.cs.
963 * The hand-coded JNI Java bindings have been removed and the SWIG-based Java
964 bindings promoted in their place. This means almost the entire C++ API is
965 now wrapped for Java, but the downside is there are some changes required
966 to existing code. Overall we feel the short-term pain is worth the long
967 term benefits of having Java bindings which stay up to date.
969 * java/SmokeTest.java: Add test that string passing is zero byte safe.
973 * Improve error messages.
977 * Fix "Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated" warnings in test cases with
980 * Fix Search::Xapian::Query->new() to work.
982 * Enable warnings for all test cases and make them fatal.
984 * Add "use Carp;" where we use functions from that module.
986 * Improve POD docs for Document and TermGenerator methods - "weight" is
987 misleading, so use "wdfinc" and "wdfdec" like the C++ API docs do.
989 * The Query constructor which takes an array of subqueries is now wrapped more
990 efficiently - previous a temporary C++ std::vector was built but now we avoid
995 * PHP >= 5.3 is now required.
997 * Add PHP type hints to the class wrappers. Fixes ticket#577.
999 * The XapianQuery constructor which takes an array of subqueries is now
1000 wrapped more efficiently - previous a temporary C++ std::vector was built
1001 but now we avoid doing this.
1005 * Python >= 2.4 is now required.
1007 * Remove deprecated Stem_get_available_languages().
1009 * Hide away the deprecated non-pythonic iterators - we still need them to
1010 implement the pythonic iterators, so we can't entirely remove them.
1012 * Replace SWIG's thread locking with code which does nothing unless threads
1013 are already initialised, to avoid the overhead of thread locking in the
1014 common case of single-threaded Python code. This seems to be about 5-10%
1015 faster for pythontest2.py modified to repeat the tests 100 times.
1017 * Handle the GIL in a way which also works in sub-interpreters. Fixes ticket
1020 * The Query constructor which takes an array of subqueries is now wrapped more
1021 efficiently - previous a temporary C++ std::vector was built but now we avoid
1026 * The XapianQuery constructor which takes an array of subqueries is now
1027 wrapped more efficiently - previous a temporary C++ std::vector was built
1028 but now we avoid doing this.
1032 * The XapianQuery constructor which takes an array of subqueries is now
1033 wrapped more efficiently - previous a temporary C++ std::vector was built
1034 but now we avoid doing this.
1036 Xapian-bindings 1.2.23 (2016-03-28):
1040 * Update links to Xapian website and trac to use https, which is now supported,
1041 thanks to James Aylett.
1045 * Check that the PHP interpreter we find is actually PHP5, and if not look
1046 harder. On current Debian unstable, php-config5 --php-binary reports
1047 /usr/bin/php which can be PHP7.
1049 * Document that PHP7 isn't currently supported, and explicitly check for and
1050 reject it in configure.
1054 * configure: Stop preferring rdoc-1.8 to rdoc (this only happened in a
1055 fall-back case when rdoc wasn't found in the same directory as the ruby
1058 Xapian-bindings 1.2.22 (2015-12-29):
1062 * Stop maintaining ChangeLog files. They make merging patches harder, and stop
1063 'git cherry-pick' from working as it should. The git repo history should be
1064 sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
1068 * Stop wrapping internal methods of Xapian::Weight.
1070 * Return Error::get_description() rather than get_type + ": " + get_msg(). In
1071 many cases this is the same, but if context or errno are available,
1072 get_description() includes them.
1074 * Catch and report std::exception rather than handling it as an unknown error
1075 (so in particular std::bad_alloc will now be reported more helpfully).
1079 * Fix configure test for whether $MONO can run CSharp programs - previously it
1080 would always fail, which would mean that the CSharp tests would only be run
1081 on systems where CSharp programs can be run directly.
1085 * Send stderr from lua version check to config.log instead of letting it appear
1090 * Fix memory leak and crash when using PHP subclasses of Xapian functors.
1092 * Subclasses of XapianMatchSpy and XapianPostingSource with implicit
1093 constructors now work.
1097 * Add new testcase to catch any internal functions, methods, constants, etc
1098 which have accidentally been wrapped.
1100 Xapian-bindings 1.2.21 (2015-05-20):
1104 * README: Remove note about the Lua bindings being experimental - it's not
1105 really been true for some time now.
1109 * Wrap missing constants OP_SYNONYM and STEM_ALL_Z.
1111 * Add workaround for Perl defining a seed() macro which breaks compilation with
1112 GCC in C++11 mode (due to <algorithm> now pulling in random number generation
1113 classes with a method called seed).
1115 * Update list of unwrapped things in POD documentation.
1117 * Perl tests are ordering-dependent, so use .NOTPARALLEL to avoid problems
1118 during parallel builds.
1120 * Add test coverage for Enquire::set_collapse_key() with 1 and 2 parameters.
1122 * Add test that we can create all the stemmers returned by
1123 Stem::get_available_languages().
1125 * t/symbol-test.t: If the symboltest module build fails, skip the test - it's
1126 likely due to external reasons, like incompatible compiler flags being taken
1127 from Perl's Config module, due to Perl having been built with a different
1130 * Use croak_sv() or ERRSV if defined.
1134 * README: Remove note about the subclassing bug with PHP 5.4 and later - that
1135 was fixed in 1.2.19.
1139 * README: Add note that 1.3.2 has Python 3 support, and that this will be in
1140 stable release 1.4.0.
1144 * smoketest.rb: Fix "warning: assigned but unused variable - mset".
1146 * Ship generate-rdoc-stubs in the tarball. Reported by Matthias Klose in
1147 https://bugs.debian.org/782270
1149 Xapian-bindings 1.2.20 (2015-03-04):
1153 * configure: Avoid using \? in sed command in Lua detection - it isn't
1154 supported by all sed implementations.
1158 * configure: Rework LUA_SO checks to be clearer and to properly handle LUA_SO
1159 being specified without a leading '.'.
1161 * configure: Add an example of specifying LUA_SO to --help output.
1165 * Remove text about subclassing bug with PHP 5.4 and later - that was fixed in
1168 * In current PHP releases, dl() is disabled in most SAPIs, and even where
1169 available it will now only look in the configured extension directory. The
1170 upshot is that there no longer seems to be a sane way to install the PHP
1171 bindings without being root, so update the documentation to reflect this.
1172 Fixes #661, reported by Felix Ostmann.
1174 Xapian-bindings 1.2.19 (2014-10-21):
1178 * Fix up SWIG generated C++ wrapper code so that subclassing of wrapped classes
1179 in PHP works with PHP 5.4 and later. (Fixes #652, reported by Sebastian
1182 * Fix XapianQueryParser::set_stopper() and XapianTermGenerator::set_stopper()
1183 which were getting incorrectly wrapped such that they didn't actually do
1184 anything. Fixes #659, reported by jmienert. This bug was introduced by the
1185 reference tracking fix in 1.2.14.
1189 * README: Note that Ruby 2.1 works too.
1191 Xapian-bindings 1.2.18 (2014-06-22):
1195 * README: Add links to Erlang and Node.js bindings.
1199 * lua/smoketest.lua: Change expect() parameter order to the more natural (got,
1200 expected), which most of the calls already used, and fix up the few calls
1201 which passed (expected, got).
1205 * php/smoketest.php: Add missing "exit(1);" after reporting failure of check
1206 that MatchDecider returns an MSet with the expected docid in. Luckily this
1207 wasn't masking a test failure.
1211 * python/pythontest.py: There's no longer a need to use chert_open() explicitly
1212 - chert is the default backend now, and both chert and brass support the
1213 required functionality for the tests which do this, so this just needlessly
1214 causes the tests to fail if chert is disabled in xapian-core.
1216 * configure: If the Python version is too new or too old, only report it once
1221 * configure: Fix Ruby bindings to build on Windows (and other platforms where
1222 allow_undefined_flag=unsupported. (fixes#634, reported by Alexis Denis)
1224 Xapian-bindings 1.2.17 (2014-01-29):
1228 * Improve workaround which allows building against an uninstalled xapian-core
1229 on OS X - this should now work with any uninstalled xapian-core (not only in
1230 a tree with the same layout as an SVN or git checkout) and it also won't try
1231 to build against "../xapian-core/.libs" just because it happens to exist.
1232 (Backported from 1.3.1; fixes #322)
1236 * configure: Some distros now point /usr/bin/python at Python 3, so the check
1237 for a Python 2 interpreter now checks for 'python2' first, and checks that
1238 the version of found interpreter is 2.x.
1242 * Tweak configure to work with Ruby 2.0.
1246 * Link against -ltclstubX.Y for Tcl 8.5 and later (reported by Sergei Golovan
1247 in http://bugs.debian.org/724830).
1249 * Use a better check for TCL_INC for Tcl 8.5 and later.
1251 Xapian-bindings 1.2.16 (2013-12-04):
1255 * README: Note that the SWIG Perl bindings should replace the XS ones in 1.4.x.
1259 * Compress source tarballs with xz instead of gzip.
1261 * configure: Handle git snapshot naming.
1265 * configure: Update list of platforms where we tell libtool not to link in
1266 deplibs to match the list used for xapian-core.
1270 * Pass 0 instead of NULL for non-pointer parameter to av_fetch (spotted due to
1273 * symboltest.t: Pass $CPPFLAGS and $CXXFLAGS from the environment through to
1274 the sub-build, fixing failure when built with CPPFLAGS=-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG.
1278 * smoketest.php: If running under PHP >= 5.4, skip the tests we know will fail
1279 with a message explaining this.
1283 * Provide bindings version in xapian.__version__ as per PEP 396. (see #346)
1285 * python/docs/examples/simpleexpand.py: Use Pythonic iteration over the ESet.
1287 * pythontest.py: Fix testcase checking we get an exception from using
1288 non-random-access iterators after then have advanced - previously these
1289 didn't actually test as fully as intended.
1293 * Omit internal classes and methods from the rdocs.
1295 Xapian-bindings 1.2.15 (2013-04-16):
1299 * Fix configure --enable-quiet option to actually work for the bindings.
1303 * Fix doc typo: "as as" -> "as a"
1307 * Fix deprecation warning in configure from Ruby 1.9.3.
1309 Xapian-bindings 1.2.14 (2013-03-14):
1313 * Fix typo in doccomment.
1317 * Keep references to the PHP wrapper object when an object is set on another
1318 object. (fixes #614)
1322 * Allow TCL_INC to be passed to configure. (fixes #612)
1324 Xapian-bindings 1.2.13 (2012-11-09):
1328 * configure: Overhaul checks for C# tools to use modern names in preference.
1332 * Fix examples to use str(query) to get the query description. (Fixes #600)
1334 * Document that get_description() is mapped to str(), and end() to _end().
1336 * Fix functor wrappers which return strings to be zero-byte clean.
1340 * Forward port tests of StringValueRangeProcessor with a prefix or suffix from
1341 1.2's XS Search::Xapian. (ticket#607)
1343 * Update testsuite not to use UNIVERSAL::isa() as a function, since doing so
1348 * Document that subclassing Xapian classes in PHP currently doesn't work with
1351 Xapian-bindings 1.2.12 (2012-06-27):
1353 No changes since 1.2.11 except to bump the version - this release was made to
1354 fix an incorrect library version information update in xapian-core 1.2.11.
1356 Xapian-bindings 1.2.11 (2012-06-26):
1360 * Ship the scripts which generate the except.i files for Lua, Perl and Python.
1364 * In generated C++ code, pass 0 instead of NULL for non-pointer parameter to
1365 av_fetch() (spotted due to GCC 4.7 warning).
1369 * Fix "make check" to work for PHP when building from a release tarball with
1372 * Work around "undefined symbol: zend_error_noreturn" error.
1374 Xapian-bindings 1.2.10 (2012-05-09):
1378 * Use -keyfile and -keycontainer options to the C# compiler, because it warns
1379 us to do this instead of setting them in AssemblyInfo.cs.
1381 * Use diff's -c option when comparing the files SWIG generated against those we
1382 were expecting to get as the output should be easier to understand.
1384 * Sort both the lists of expected and of found SWIG-generated sources with
1385 Perl, to avoid problems with locale-specific sort orders.
1389 * Remove now superfluous old check that SWIG generated at least the sources we
1390 want - we now check it generated *exactly* the sources we want.
1392 * Use diff's -c option when comparing the files SWIG generated against those we
1393 were expecting to get as the output should be easier to understand.
1395 * Sort both the lists of expected and of found SWIG-generated sources with
1396 Perl, to avoid problems with locale-specific sort orders.
1400 * Now works with Lua 5.2.
1402 * "require 'xapian'" now returns the module table. (ticket #593)
1404 * lua/smoketest.lua: Improve reporting of test failures.
1408 * Avoid importing isa from UNIVERSAL to fix Perl 5.12 deprecation warning.
1410 * Remove #! lines with -W to fix "Name "Test::More::TODO" used only once:
1411 possible typo at /usr/share/perl/5.14/Exporter/Heavy.pm line 190." warnings.
1415 * python/docs/examples/simpleexpand.py: Update to not use deprecated MSet
1416 iteration features which have been removed on trunk. This also fixes a
1417 segfault if there are no matches and no documents are explicitly marked as
1420 * python/testsuite2.py: Explicitly suggest "make check VERBOSE=1" as a simple
1421 way to rerun tests with verbose output.
1425 * configure: Make sure the ruby subdirectory exists before trying to create
1426 ruby/rubyio.h, so this works in a VPATH build from a clean tree.
1428 Xapian-bindings 1.2.9 (2012-03-08):
1432 * configure: Fix test for jni.h to try looking for jni.h relative to the real
1433 location of javac, which should work for more JDKs.
1437 * Handle an exception from C++ by raising a xapian.Error object as an error in
1440 * Rename get_description() methods to __tostring(), so that you can use write
1441 tostring(obj) in Lua.
1443 * configure: Honour LUA_LIB if already set. Fixes #581.
1445 * configure: Improve probing for LUA_LIB, and also probe for LUA_SO so we
1446 support platforms where the compiled Lua module isn't called .so.
1450 * Add tests of Document::get_docid().
1454 * Add a test that Query constructor taking OP_NEAR with a window size works.
1458 * python/testsuite2.py: Don't run off the traceback looking for a test function
1459 if the exception wasn't from a test function.
1461 Xapian-bindings 1.2.8 (2011-12-13):
1465 * Wrap user-subclassable functor objects by allowing the user to pass a
1466 Lua function where the functor object would be passed in the C++ API.
1470 * Fix "PHP Notice: Undefined variable: r in xapian.php". (Fixes bug#576)
1472 * The PHP bindings will now work again with a version of PHP built with ZTS
1473 enabled (which is the default on Microsoft Windows). This was broken by
1474 the changes to support subclassing in PHP in the version of SWIG used since
1479 * Add a module docstring. (Fixes bug #573)
1481 * The python testsuite now checks for object leaks during each testcase.
1483 * In test_matchingterms_iter, run the code we're testing for leaks twice, and
1484 only check for leaks the second time to avoid falsely reporting a leak when
1485 some cached value gets initialised under Python 2.5.
1489 * Wrap optional prefix parameter to Database::allterms.
1491 Xapian-bindings 1.2.7 (2011-08-10):
1495 * INSTALL: Pull in a few updates from the latest version of the automake
1496 document which this file was originally based on. Add in the missing
1497 copyright and licensing information.
1499 * INSTALL: Add --with-lua to list of options.
1501 * INSTALL,README: It's no longer noteworthy that Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 aren't
1502 supported as Apple ditched them long ago, so drop this as a "Known Issue" in
1503 INSTALL and instead just say "Mac OS X >= 10.3" in the discussion of
1504 supported platforms in the README.
1506 * HACKING: Update and start section on deprecation warnings for the bindings.
1510 * Add missing wrappers for Database::has_positions() and
1511 TermIterator::positionlist_count(), and correct the return type of
1512 Database::get_doclength() from double to Xapian::termcount.
1516 * README: Note a recent version of Mono which we've tested the C# bindings
1519 * Check that exactly the sources we expect are generated, and add some sources
1520 which were missing from the list.
1522 * Fix "make uninstall" so the compiled C++ module (typically _XapianSharp.so)
1525 * Fix iterator ++ and -- so that the reference to the object isn't released
1526 prematurely, which was causing an occasional crash if the garbage collection
1527 happened at just the wrong moment,
1529 * Add test coverage for QueryParser.ParseQuery() with flags argument.
1531 * Wrap Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing. (ticket#158)
1535 * SmokeTest.java: Fix == comparisons with strings to use equals().
1537 * Add test that string passing is zero byte safe.
1539 * Fix MyExpandDecider.accept() to really check the passed parameter.
1543 * Put the SWIG-generated Java bindings in package org.xapian.
1545 * Wrap Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing. (ticket#158)
1547 * SmokeTest.java: Fix == comparisons with literal strings to use equals()
1549 * Add test that string passing is zero byte safe.
1551 * Fix MyExpandDecider.accept() to really check the passed parameter.
1553 * Fix the compile JNI code to have a .jnilib extension on Mac OS X.
1555 * Create an HTML documentation page based on java/README.
1557 * Copy java examples from the hand-coded JNI ones.
1559 * docs/examples/SimpleIndex.java: Update to use commit() rather than flush().
1561 * Check that exactly the sources we expect are generated, and add some sources
1562 which were missing from the list.
1566 * Merge latest Lua changes from Xiaona Han.
1568 * lua/smoketest.lua: Add simple test for Database::positionlist_begin().
1570 * simpleexpand.lua: Don't try to add anything to the RSet if there are no
1575 * Sync updates to examples from XS Search::Xapian:
1577 + Require Perl >= 5.6 so we can "use warnings;".
1579 + Loop over file using while() (which reads a line per iteration) not
1580 foreach() (which reads the whole file up front).
1582 * Wrap MatchAll and MatchNothing for Perl (as Search::Xapian::Query::MatchAll
1583 and Search::Xapian::Query::MatchNothing). (ticket#158)
1585 * perl/t/termgenerator.t: Test TermIterator::index_text() with two arguments.
1587 * perl/Makefile.am: Fix "make check".
1589 * perl/t/symbol-test.t: Fix to work when built against an installed
1590 xapian-core. (ticket#558)
1594 * php/smoketest.php: Install an error handler so the test fails if there are
1595 any errors, warnings, notices, etc.
1597 * Change PHP examples and test program to use 'include "xapian.php"' like user
1598 code should (rather than 'include "php5/xapian.php"' as they did previously).
1600 * Wrap MatchAll and MatchNothing for PHP as XapianQuery::MatchAll() and
1601 XapianQuery::MatchNothing(). (ticket#158)
1605 * Wrap MatchAll and MatchNothing for Ruby. (ticket#158)
1607 Xapian-bindings 1.2.6 (2011-06-12):
1611 * SWIG-based bindings are now generated with a newer version of SWIG
1616 * On Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and 10.4 on x86, build Java JNI library with a
1617 .jnilib extension as we do for older versions.
1621 * Upgrading to newer SWIG fixes issues with strings with newer C# versions.
1625 * Fix memory leaks when functions taking string parameters throw exceptions.
1627 * Previously a hash table was used to map Java objects to C++ ones, but we
1628 now just cast the address of the C++ object to a jlong (which is 64 bits
1629 so will hold a pointer on current platforms). This is more efficient and
1630 avoids the need for thread locks around accesses to the hash table.
1632 * Remove explicit checks for NULL around calls to delete.
1634 * Mark makefiles which build Java code as .NOTPARALLEL to avoid race conditions
1635 during parallel builds.
1639 * Add support for Lua, which is being developed by Xiaona Han during GSoC this
1640 year. The current support should be regarded as experimental - it passes
1641 its automated tests, but the details of the Lua API are likely to evolve as
1642 the project progresses.
1646 * README: say that Perl bindings probably need Perl 5.8 or later.
1650 * Directors now work for PHP (ticket#488). New simplematchdecider.php example.
1654 * python/pythontest2.py: With Python 2.7, gc.collect() doesn't always collect
1655 all the garbage, so repeat until no further objects are freed.
1656 (http://bugs.debian.org/625679 and https://bugs.gentoo.org/349484).
1660 * ruby/smoketest.rb: Older Ruby 1.8.x doesn't have Dir.mktmpdir() - just skip
1661 the compaction tests for these versions.
1663 Xapian-bindings 1.2.5 (2011-04-04):
1667 * README: Update info on SWIG-based Perl bindings.
1669 * INSTALL: Copy new Multi-Arch section from xapian-core/INSTALL. Replace VPATH
1670 section with better equivalent from xapian-core/INSTALL.
1674 * Wrap ESet::get_eset() with min_wt parameter (new in C++ API in 1.2.5).
1676 * configure: If xapian-core is a different release series, promote the
1677 mismatched versions warning to an error.
1681 * Mac OS X: Don't override MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET on 10.5 and later, or
1682 10.4 on x86, as the default if unset on these versions is the current OS
1683 version. (ticket#541)
1685 * python/pythontest2.py: In test_compactor(), close any open databases before
1686 removing the directory as you can't delete an open database on Microsoft
1687 Windows. (ticket#526)
1691 * Don't pass extra flags to Microsoft's gacutil. (ticket#516)
1693 * Clarify the licence is GPL "version 2 or later" in the meta information
1694 we put in the module.
1698 * Remove old and broken Enquire.get_matching_terms() method. We deprecated
1699 Enquire.get_matching_terms() in 1.0.x, and removed it in 1.1.0, but
1700 accidentally left an older version of get_matching_terms() exposed.
1702 * Remove broken implementation of MSet.__contains__. This appears never to
1703 have worked, and to have been broken for at least the past 3.5 years without
1704 anyone mentioning it, and is probably of little use anyway, so no need to
1707 * python/docs/index.html: Document that MSet.items and ESet.items are
1708 deprecated, and what to use instead. Note that MSET_DOCUMENT never worked on
1709 the tuple returned by MSet.items. (ticket#531)
1711 * Add test coverage for mset.items.
1715 * Add test coverage for Xapian::Compactor.
1717 * Handle an empty response to $RUBY --version specially. This gives a less
1718 opaque error in cases where the user specified RUBY but the value given
1719 wasn't an executable file.
1721 Xapian-bindings 1.2.4 (2010-12-19):
1725 * Wrap the new Xapian::Compactor class. The resolve_duplicate_metadata()
1726 virtual method is wrapped for subclassing for Python and Ruby currently.
1728 * Eliminate separate Makefile.am in the docs subdirectory of each language
1729 subdirectory and just inline any rules into the main sub-Makefile.am, which
1730 allows more of the build to run in parallel.
1732 * Don't ship some files which are generated at build time.
1734 * configure: Need python in maintainer mode to run doxy2swig.py.
1738 * RPM: Package the Perl bindings.
1740 * RPM: Don't package _XapianSharp.la.
1744 * For Mac OS X builds, set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to allow tests to find an
1745 uninstalled Xapian library. See ticket #322.
1747 * configure: Fix typo in code to set PYTHON_LIBS under cygwin. (ticket#509)
1751 * Don't install _XapianSharp.la.
1755 * Merge SWIG-based Perl bindings originally developed by Kosei Moriyama during
1756 GSoC 2009. These are close to being a compatible replacement for the
1757 hand-coded XS bindings in Search::Xapian but also offer a more complete
1758 wrapping of the C++ API. We're planning to replace the XS bindings with the
1759 SWIG ones for easier maintenance. We encourage you to try them and let us
1760 know how you get on - particularly if you find cases where code which works
1761 with the XS bindings doesn't work with the SWIG ones.
1765 * Document that iterators shouldn't be dereferenced or advanced when at their
1766 end points (ticket#520).
1770 * Fix memory leaks in typemaps which return Python lists.
1772 * MatchSpy can now be subclassed in Python. Remote use isn't currently
1775 * configure: Use sys.version_info tuple, rather than string splicing which
1776 assumes the Python "major.minor" is 3 characters (which would fail if Python
1777 2.10 were ever released, for example).
1779 Xapian-bindings 1.2.3 (2010-08-24):
1783 * xapian-bindings.spec: Don't run autoreconf - it's no longer required.
1785 Xapian-bindings 1.2.2 (2010-06-27):
1787 * No user-visible change except for bumping the version to indicate
1788 compatibility with Xapian-core 1.2.2.
1790 Xapian-bindings 1.2.1 (2010-06-22):
1792 This release includes all changes from 1.0.21 which are relevant.
1796 * Wrap Xapian::StemImplementation. Currently this has only been tested for
1797 Python. (ticket#448)
1801 * Remove non-functional disabled guile bindings left over from Open Muscat
1802 days - if someone wanted to add guile bindings, it would be easier to start
1807 * Update list of generated java sources in the SWIG-based Java bindings.
1811 * zend_throw_exception() returns, so return control to PHP directly after
1812 calling it to avoid needless extra work and possible issues.
1816 * Fix "from xapian import *". (ticket#477)
1818 * Fix testcase weight_normalise - a change in xapian-core means that
1819 get_max_possible() can now return zero for a non-existent term, so don't
1820 blindly calculate the reciprocal of it.
1822 * python/replicationtest2.py: Extend to check that changesets get applied
1825 * python/smoketest2.py: Check len(mset) works (improving test coverage of
1826 Python-specific wrapping).
1828 Xapian-bindings 1.2.0 (2010-04-28):
1830 This release includes all changes from 1.0.20 which are relevant.
1834 * configure: Tell libtool not to link in deplibs on platforms where we know
1837 * configure: On Linux, extract the library search path from ldconfig which
1838 gives us the default entries reliably.
1840 Xapian-bindings 1.1.5 (2010-04-15):
1842 This release includes all changes from 1.0.19 which are relevant.
1846 * tcl8/docs/index.html: Document WritableDatabase::close() as a way to
1847 sidestep the whole destructor issue. (ticket#62)
1849 Xapian-bindings 1.1.4 (2010-02-15):
1851 This release includes all changes from 1.0.18 which are relevant.
1855 * Update for the new Brass backend and other C++ API changes.
1857 * Wrap Database::get_doclength_lower_bound(),
1858 Database::get_doclength_upper_bound(), Database::get_wdf_upper_bound(),
1859 Database::valuestream_begin() and Database::valuestream_end() for all
1860 languages. (ticket#431)
1862 * Wrap ValueIterator::skip_to() and ValueIterator::check() for all languages.
1866 * Wrap valuestreams as Database.valuestream(), returning a ValueStreamIter
1867 object which dereferences to a ValueStreamItem object,
1869 * Fix Enquire.clear_matchspies() wrapper which crashed in 1.1.3.
1873 * Add safe wrapper for the valuestream iterator.
1875 Xapian-bindings 1.1.3 (2009-11-18):
1877 This release includes all changes from 1.0.15-1.0.17 which are relevant.
1881 * configure: Default to looking for xapian-config-1.1 unless XAPIAN_CONFIG is
1884 * Wrap the new MatchSpy class, and associated features.
1886 * Don't wrap PostingSource::serialise(), Weight::serialise() and
1887 Weight::unserialise() as they aren't useful from the bindings.
1889 * Update for the Sorter to KeyMaker changes.
1893 * Fix PHP bindings to build when PHP has been compiled in multithreaded mode,
1894 as it standardly is on Microsoft Windows. Fixes #411.
1896 * Merged the PHP "smoketest" back together now we don't need to support
1901 * Fix a memory leak on error (in theory - we've not got a way to generate this
1902 error, so haven't been able to reproduce the leak or test the fix).
1904 Xapian-bindings 1.1.2 (2009-07-23):
1906 This release includes all changes from 1.0.14 which are relevant to trunk.
1910 * Several changes towards fully supporting Python 3, but more work is required.
1913 Xapian-bindings 1.1.1 (2009-06-09):
1915 This release includes all changes from 1.0.13 which are relevant to trunk.
1919 * Wrap the recently added extra parameter to Enquire::set_collapse_key().
1923 * Document that Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing aren't wrapped for
1924 C# yet, and to use Query("") and Query() instead.
1926 * configure: If we don't find a C# compiler, don't test an empty command name
1927 further which saves a fork and avoids an odd looking message.
1931 * Document that Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing aren't wrapped for
1932 PHP yet, and to use Query("") and Query() instead.
1936 * Wrap Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing for Python and document how they
1937 are wrapped (ticket#158).
1939 * python/smoketest2.py,python/smoketest3.py: Update tests with FLAG_PARTIAL to
1940 expect SYNONYM in generated query.
1944 * Document that Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing aren't wrapped for
1945 Ruby yet, and to use Query("") and Query() instead.
1949 * Wrap Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing for Tcl and document how they
1950 are wrapped (ticket#158).
1952 Xapian-bindings 1.1.0 (2009-04-22):
1956 * INSTALL: Python 2.6 and later look in ~/.local for Python modules so update
1957 the instructions to suggest users use this standard location for installing
1958 without root access.
1962 * All deprecated features slated for removal in 1.1.0 have been removed.
1964 * All new C++ API features have been wrapped. Also, since we now supply some
1965 standard MatchDecider subclasses, we now wrap Enquire::get_mset() so that
1966 these can be passed in even for languages for which SWIG doesn't support
1971 * xapian-bindings.spec: Updated to reflect the new Python packaging.
1975 * configure: Use XAPIAN_CXXFLAGS for test compiles since it may include options
1976 to put the compiler into ISO C++ mode).
1980 * PHP4 support has been removed, since PHP4 is no longer supported upstream
1985 * Python 2.3 or later is now required. 2.2 is essentially unsupported
1988 * The import method used has been changed (by using a newer SWIG version)
1989 and no longer gives a warning with Python 2.6.
1991 * Initial support for Python 3.0 has been added. This currently doesn't
1992 work correctly and should be treated as experimental. (ticket#346)
1994 * The newer SWIG version handles exceptions in director methods correctly
1995 so we no longer need our workaround for ticket #289.
1997 * Database::metadata_keys_begin() and Database::metadata_keys_end() are
1998 wrapped for Python as Database.metadata_keys().
2000 * The Python bindings are now installed as a python package, with the
2001 files in a xapian subdirectory, hiding the internal _xapian module
2004 * Python now flags deprecation warnings for the single argument form and old
2005 parameter name (ascending) in set_sort_by_key(), set_sort_by_value() and
2008 Xapian-bindings 1.0.23 (2011-01-14):
2012 * configure: Fix typo in code to set PYTHON_LIBS under cygwin. (ticket#509)
2016 * Document that iterators shouldn't be dereferenced or advanced when at their
2017 end points (ticket#520).
2021 * Fix memory leaks in typemaps which return Python lists.
2023 Xapian-bindings 1.0.22 (2010-10-03):
2027 * RPM: Don't package _XapianSharp.la.
2031 * Don't install _XapianSharp.la.
2035 * configure: Use sys.version_info tuple, rather than string splicing which
2036 assumes the Python "major.minor" is 3 characters (which would fail if Python
2037 2.10 were ever released, for example).
2039 * Add test_xapian_star.py to distribution - fixes failure of "test_import_star"
2040 testcase in pythontest.py.
2042 Xapian-bindings 1.0.21 (2010-06-18):
2046 * xapian.BAD_VALUENO is now wrapped as a constant rather than variable which
2047 can't be written to. (ticket#297)
2049 * Fix cleaning of test directories to use "rm -rf" rather than "rm -f".
2051 * Add test to check that "from xapian import *" works.
2053 Xapian-bindings 1.0.20 (2010-04-27):
2057 * Set PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 in the environment to prevent Python from
2058 generating .pyc files in srcdir for Python >= 2.6, and use a Bourne shell
2059 trap to delete them after running tests for older versions of Python.
2064 * configure: Fix typo so path to ruby is reported if Ruby < 1.8 is found.
2066 Xapian-bindings 1.0.19 (2010-04-15):
2070 * tcl8/docs/index.html: Improve wording in a few places.
2072 Xapian-bindings 1.0.18 (2010-02-14):
2076 * Wrap new C++ API method Document::add_boolean_term().
2080 * Generate entries in the Ruby rdocs for all classes which aren't documented
2081 because of Ruby-specific methods. Fixes ticket#417.
2083 * Avoid absolute paths in the generated rdocs.
2085 Xapian-bindings 1.0.17 (2009-11-18):
2089 * Improve RPM package summaries - the files are needed to *use* scripts as well
2090 as to develop them. Use "Tcl" instead of "TCL" as the former is more
2095 * python/Makefile.am: Restore the "./" path to the sourced file
2096 libtoolconfig.tmp as ksh requires it.
2100 * Fix memory leak when passing a MatchDecider to Enquire::get_mset().
2102 Xapian-bindings 1.0.16 (2009-09-10):
2106 * Improved docstrings for QueryParser::set_default_op() and
2107 QueryParser::get_default_op() (automatically generated from changes in
2110 Xapian-bindings 1.0.15 (2009-08-26):
2114 * Don't break long words when wrapping text in the generated API documentation
2115 comments as this was causing identifiers to be broken in two.
2117 Xapian-bindings 1.0.14 (2009-07-21):
2121 * configure: If $CSC is empty, don't try to run it. This was a cosmetic bug
2122 and the only side-effect was an odd looking message.
2126 * Rename methods at build-time using SWIG rather than a run-time in Python, as
2127 the latter approach adds a small time overhead when the module is being
2132 * Fix to accept an integer value > MAXINT for a double parameter.
2134 Xapian-bindings 1.0.13 (2009-05-23):
2138 * xapian-bindings.spec: Update C# packaging for rename of XapianSharp.so to
2139 _XapianSharp.so in 1.0.11.
2141 * xapian-bindings.spec: Update Tcl8 packaging for where we now install the
2142 bindings since 1.0.6.
2146 * Backport fix from SWIG SVN for misuse of formatted error function in
2147 SWIG-generated code.
2151 * Change the SWIG-generated wrapper code so it doesn't attempt to acquire
2152 Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in situations where we know that it
2153 will already be locked. This avoids some dead-locks with mod_python (due to
2154 mod_python bugs which are apparently unlikely to ever be fixed), and results
2155 in smaller wrappers which run a little faster (in tests with Xapian on x86-64
2156 Ubuntu 9.04, the stripped wrapper library was 11% smaller and ran 2.7%
2157 faster). (ticket#185)
2159 * README,python/docs/index.html: Update documentation of the above mod_python
2160 issue and also document the related mod_wsgi issue. The status is now that
2161 everything seems to work if you stick to the main interpreter (ticket#364).
2163 * Backport fix from SWIG SVN for misuse of formatted error function in
2164 SWIG-generated code.
2166 * python/docs/examples/simplematchdecider.py: Read "avoid_value" from the
2167 second parameter, not the third.
2169 * python/docs/examples/simplematchdecider.py,
2170 python/docs/examples/simplesearch.py: Make use of str.join() for simpler,
2175 * README: Note that the testsuite fails due to a bug in the test/unit module in
2176 Ruby 1.9.0, but applications using the bindings should work, and that the
2177 testsuite works with Ruby 1.9.1. Drop all mention of Ruby 1.6.x as that
2178 appears to be completely dead both upstream and in the wild.
2180 Xapian-bindings 1.0.12 (2009-04-19):
2184 * INSTALL: Add a note about being able to pass variables to configure to pick
2185 which of several parallel installations of a language to build for.
2189 * python/pythontest.py: Round the weights returned for the OP_SCALE_WEIGHT
2190 test to avoid failing due to rounding differences.
2192 * python/testsuite.py: Remove bare except: handlers from testsuite, so Ctrl-C
2193 stop the whole testsuite, not just the currently running testcase.
2195 Xapian-bindings 1.0.11 (2009-03-15):
2199 * README: Note that 1.0.x doesn't (and isn't currently planned to) support
2200 Python 3, and possible current issues with Ruby 1.9.
2204 * Merge fixes from Cygwin Ports, so bindings should build out of the box on
2209 * python/docs/examples/: Use str(obj) rather than obj.get_description() (the
2210 latter is deprecated, and support was removed in 1.0.0).
2212 * Add support for using the new name ("reverse") for the second argument of
2213 set_sort_by_key() and set_sort_by_value() and friends as a named parameter.
2214 The old name ("ascending") is still supported, but will be deprecated in
2217 * Keep Python references to Sorter, Stopper, and ValueRangeProcessor objects
2218 which get set on other objects to avoid segmentation faults if they go out
2219 of scope before the object they are set on does. (ticket#341)
2223 * Fixes for Ruby 1.9 compatibility (ticket#323). The test harness currently
2224 fails so "make check" doesn't pass, but code using the bindings should work.
2226 Xapian-bindings 1.0.10 (2008-12-23):
2230 * Need to clean testsuite.pyc from srcdir since that's where it gets generated
2231 as things stand (upstream fix for Debian bug 506090).
2233 Xapian-bindings 1.0.9 (2008-10-31):
2237 * configure: Add support for "--enable-quiet" like xapian-core and omega have.
2239 * Wrap new Database::metadata_keys_begin() and Database::metadata_keys_end()
2242 Xapian-bindings 1.0.8 (2008-09-04):
2246 * configure: Report bug report URL in --help output.
2250 * Fix mangling of exceptions thrown from Python subclasses of Xapian classes.
2253 * Fix memory leaks in the xapian.Query constructor. (bug#294)
2255 Xapian-bindings 1.0.7 (2008-07-14):
2259 * Document how all the database factory functions and library version functions
2260 are wrapped for all languages.
2264 * Fix to build against a xapian-core which has quartz and/or flint disabled.
2266 * The "program" version of Remote::open() has been wrapped for some time, so
2267 update the documentation which said it wasn't.
2271 * xapian-bindings.spec: Remove "www." from xapian.org and oligarchy.co.uk URLs.
2275 * For Java, Python, and Ruby, use the libtool -shrext option to specify a
2276 different module extension rather than our own ugly bodge.
2280 * Make passing string from Java to C++ zero-byte safe. It doesn't appear to be
2281 simple to make C++ to Java work though.
2285 * Add test that OP_VALUE_GE works for PHP.
2289 * Several corrections to the Python documentation.
2291 * configure: Fix problem with building under mingw.
2295 * Include simplematchdecider.rb example.
2297 * smoketest.rb: Test the version reporting functions.
2301 * Include simpleexpand.tcl example.
2303 * Fix where the Tcl module gets installed.
2305 * README: Note that Tcl 8.3 and earlier are no longer supported by upstream.
2307 Xapian-bindings 1.0.6 (2008-03-17):
2311 * Wrap OP_VALUE_GE and OP_VALUE_LE and the new Query constructor which they are
2314 * configure: Correct the required SWIG version given in an error message.
2318 * php/smoketest.php: Add note that this script should be run using 'make check'
2319 in the build tree (rather than trying to copy it to a webserver as someone
2322 * php/smoketest.php: Fix to work under PHP4.
2326 * The Python module now always has the extension which Python expects, which
2327 fixes a failure on Mac OS X.
2331 * Automatically install/uninstall the Ruby rdoc-generated documentation along
2332 with the ruby bindings.
2336 * configure: Sort out the default value of TCL_LIB, which could end up being
2337 under /usr/share in xapian-bindings 1.0.4 and 1.0.5.
2339 Xapian-bindings 1.0.5 (2007-12-21):
2343 * Wrap Xapian::Sorter and subclasses.
2345 * Wrap Enquire::set_sort_by_key(), Enquire::set_sort_by_key_then_relevance(),
2346 and Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance_then_key().
2348 * Factor out the code to protect multitarget rules against parallel make, and
2349 fix it to handle the source being changed while the rule is executing, and to
2350 correctly return an error code if we fail while trying to recover from the
2351 removal of a target of a multi-target rule.
2353 * configure: Improve the clarity of the error given when none of the tools
2354 needed for any supported language are found.
2356 * configure: SWIG 1.3.32 has now been released, so require at least this
2357 released version for maintainer builds.
2361 * Add explicit '#include <cstring>' to fix build with the latest snapshots of
2364 * configure: Log the output of trying to compile conftest.java in config.log;
2365 if the test fails, report whether the failure was compiling or running the
2368 * Check for directory existence rather than calling mkdir unconditionally as
2369 despite the "(ignored)", the error message seems to confuse some people.
2373 * Add feature test for XapianMultiValueSorter.
2375 * php/smoketest5.php: Fix use of Database_get_document to new style OO
2376 interface. Fix the error reported when the PHP5 exception test fails.
2378 * php/smoketest.php: Add feature test to confirm that optional arguments to
2379 XapianQuery's "term" constructor are wrapped.
2383 * Don't drop the GIL when calling Xapian.MSet.items and Xapian.ESet.items -
2384 these properties build a python list, so dropping the GIL isn't safe and
2385 may cause undefined behaviour in multithreaded environments.
2387 * configure: Update error message to reflect requirement for at least python
2390 * configure: Change "print foo" to "print(foo)" in python version checks, for
2391 compatibility with python 3.0.
2395 * The Ruby bindings now work on Mac OS X (the Ruby module's extension was
2396 previously incorrect).
2398 * Run "rdoc" to generate HTML for the Ruby-specific API documentation which
2399 ruby/docs/index.html previously had a dead link to.
2403 * configure: Overhaul code to find tcl.h since the old version no longer worked
2404 with Debian unstable.
2406 * tcl8/docs/index.html: Update documentation to cover flint and mention that
2407 quartz is now deprecated.
2409 * Remove code to handle `const char *' exceptions - as of 1.0.0 the QueryParser
2410 throws QueryParserError instead.
2412 Xapian-bindings 1.0.4 (2007-10-30):
2416 * Wrap new OP_SCALE_WEIGHT query operator, and corresponding Query constructor.
2417 Add feature tests for all languages.
2419 * The "bindings.html" file documenting each of the bindings has been renamed to
2424 * Fix the PHP Makefile.am to work with autoconf < 2.60 to fix RPM builds for
2429 * Fix warnings when compiling with GCC 4.2.
2433 * Update to newer SWIG SVN snapshot to fix memory leaks in wrapped constructors
2434 and methods/functions which return a wrapped class.
2436 * For PHP4, wrap Xapian::sortable_serialise() as xapian_sortable_serialise()
2437 and Xapian::sortable_unserialise() as xapian_sortable_unserialise().
2439 * Document how non-class functions are wrapped.
2441 * Fix wrapping of NumberValueRangeProcessor for PHP4.
2443 * smoketest.php: Split the regression test for bug#193 into separate
2444 versions for PHP4 and PHP5 as the previous version only worked for PHP5.
2448 * python/docs/index.html: Promote the Pythonic iterators, and deprecate the
2449 non-pythonic iterators. Make it clearer that the "sequence API" is
2452 * Add test of a custom ValueRangeProcessor (ie, one written in python).
2454 * Update the examples to use the new-style attributes to access MSet item
2455 values rather than the old-style MSET_* constants.
2457 * Document MSET_DOCUMENT.
2461 * smoketest.rb: Rename test of metadata access methods which had been named the
2462 same as the matchdecider test due to a copy-and-paste error.
2464 Xapian-bindings 1.0.3 (2007-09-28):
2468 * Wrap new methods Database::get_metadata() and
2469 WritableDatabase::set_metadata().
2471 * "make uninstall" now removes the loadable module we install for each of
2474 * "make distcheck" now works.
2476 * Distribution tarballs are now in the POSIX "ustar" format since it saves
2477 about 40KB and we need to use it for xapian-core anyway.
2481 * RPMs: Package xapian.php.
2485 * Remove wrapper for ValueRangeProcessor::operator(), since it can't be
2486 usefully used currently.
2490 * Remove wrappers for the Muscat36 backend, which has now been dropped from the
2493 * "make clean" now removes the class files generated for inner classes.
2497 * Add feature test for DateValueRangeProcessor when used with QueryParser.
2499 * ValueRangeProcessor::apply() can now be called from PHP (bug#193). This
2500 isn't actually very useful, since you can't subclass it in PHP currently.
2502 * Fixed wrapping of Enquire::set_cutoff() - previously this would only work
2503 if the third parameter was specified and a floating point number (e.g. 0.0).
2505 * php/docs/bindings.html: Fix errors in example code.
2509 * ValueRangeProcessor::operator() is now wrapped as a __call__ method in
2510 Python which takes two strings and returns a 3-tuple (value_number,
2511 modified_begin, modified_end). Previously this always failed with a
2512 type error, so this doesn't break existing code.
2514 * python/pythontest.py: Interpret any commandline arguments as a list of
2515 tests to be run (the default is to run all tests).
2517 * README,python/docs/bindings.html: Add a note about the problems with
2518 mod-python (as described in bug #185).
2520 * python/pythontest.py: Delete the database handles before deleting a database
2521 to fix problems running the Python tests on MS Windows (bug#179).
2523 * "make clean" now removes testsuite.pyc.
2527 * Check for RUBY_INC, RUBY_LIB, and RUBY_LIB_ARCH in the environment or on
2528 the configure command-line. The defaults for RUBY_LIB and RUBY_LIB_ARCH are
2529 now the site-specific directories, which is more correct when building
2530 from source. Debian packages, etc can override this by setting RUBY_LIB and
2535 * Check for TCL_LIB in the environment or on the configure command-line to
2536 allow installing without root access more cleanly.
2538 Xapian-bindings 1.0.2 (2007-07-05):
2542 * Document use of PYTHON_LIB and PHP_EXTENSION_DIR instead of pylibdir and
2545 * Remove documentation of removed "--with-swig" configure option.
2549 * Add methods of NumberValueRangeProcessor for serialising and
2550 unserialising doubles.
2552 * Add methods and constants supporting spelling correction and synonyms.
2554 * Value of XAPIAN_CONFIG supplied to configure is now passed to distcheck,
2555 to ensure that it works with uninstalled copies of Xapian.
2557 * Value of PYTHON_LIB supplied to configure is now respected - previously
2558 it was documented, but ignored.
2560 * Add support for supplying PHP_EXTENSION_DIR to configure.
2562 * Change to using "%include", rather than reproducing contents of header
2563 files, for "queryparser.h", "document.h" and "postingiterator.h".
2565 * Add new form of get_mset() which allows a matchspy matchdecider to be
2568 * RPMs: Don't mention %makeinstall in a .spec file comment as that makes RPM
2569 explode. Add in a missing "mv" in the command for installing tcl8
2574 * Fix rule handling parallel make to include xapian_wrap.h
2578 * Install xapian.php as <PREFIX>/share/php<PHPMAJOR>/xapian.php. There
2579 doesn't seem to be a standard location, but this works for Debian at
2580 least, and it seems better to at least try to install it.
2582 * Rename ValueRangeProcessor and subclasses and TermGenerator to have a Xapian
2587 * Fix a threading problem: the GIL was not being acquired in the exception
2588 handling code before setting the Python exception state, leading to
2589 various memory corruption symptoms in threaded programs.
2591 * Add special iterators to Database for synonyms, synonym_keys and
2594 * Add test cases for OP_VALUE_RANGE queries, getting spelling corrections,
2595 synonym iterators and spelling iterators.
2597 * In the test suite, expect_query() now adds "Xapian::Query(" and ")" around
2598 the expected description to make the tests more readable.
2600 Xapian-bindings 1.0.1 (2007-06-11):
2604 * NEWS: Fix the recent headings which said "Xapian-core" to say
2609 * Wrap Xapian::Query constructor for creating ValueRange queries.
2611 * Wrap new forms of Xapian::Database::allterms_begin() and allterms_end()
2612 which take a prefix.
2616 * RPMs: Use "make install" instead of %makeinstall to avoid doubled
2617 %{buildroot} prefix on most files which we then have to work around.
2621 * SimpleIndex now uses Xapian.TermGenerator.
2623 * SimpleSearch now uses Xapian.QueryParser.
2625 * New SimpleExpand example.
2627 * Document explicitly how STEM_SOME constants are currently wrapped.
2629 * Update GetTermName() reference in documentation to GetTerm().
2631 * SmokeTest.cs: Update comment about Portable.NET bug - the bug is fixed in
2632 their CVS repo, and the fix should be in their 0.8.2 release.
2636 * `configure --help' documented that environmental variable JNI_INCLUDE_DIR was
2637 looked at, but in fact its value was read but ignored. We now use it as the
2638 first place to look for jni.h.
2640 * configure will now automatically add an extra "-I" for the
2641 linux/solaris/win32 subdirectory which Sun's JDK requires.
2643 * Document JAVA_HOME and JDK_HOME in ./configure --help and mark them as
2644 "precious" so their values are preserved for when configure is automatically
2649 * Enquire::get_mset(first, maxitems, omrset) now works for PHP5.
2651 * The PHP examples have been rewritten to be clearer and to make use of the
2652 new XapianTermGenerator class.
2656 * Python examples now use xapian.QueryParser and xapian.TermGenerator.
2658 * Add support for prefix-restricted pythonic allterms iterators.
2660 * Update documentation in a couple of places to refer to updated replacements
2663 * Change testsuite output to be more vim-friendly (vim should be able to jump
2664 to the right lines now).
2666 * __str__ on Xapian::Error now includes extra information in some cases (the
2667 error_string and context, if they are set).
2669 * python/smoketest.py: Eliminate uses of the legacy sequence API.
2671 * python/pythontest.py: The legacy sequence API is only supported for Python
2672 2.3 and later, so don't run tests for it when running under Python 2.2.
2674 * We now generate and install xapian.pyo as well as xapian.pyc.
2678 * The Ruby examples now use the Xapian::QueryParser and Xapian::TermGenerator
2681 * Add missing rename for the C++ TermGenerator::set_document() method so it can
2682 be used as "tg.document = doc" in Ruby.
2684 * Fixed compilation on Mac OS X and warning from GCC on 32-bit Linux platforms.
2688 * tcl8/docs/examples/simpleexpand.tcl: New example to demonstrate relevance
2689 feedback, based on C++ simpleexpand.cc.
2691 * tcl8/docs/example/simpleindex.tcl: New simpler example making use of the
2692 TermGenerator class.
2694 * tcl8/docs/example/simplesearch.tcl: New simpler example making use of the
2697 * tcl8/docs/bindings.html: Document how constants are wrapped.
2699 * Update smoketest and examples to require version 1.0.0 - previously this
2700 required 0.9.6, which failed since TCL doesn't accept differing major
2703 * pkgIndex.tcl is now generated by configure.
2707 * The required automake version has been lowered to 1.8.3, so RPMs can now be
2708 built on RHEL 4 and SLES 9.
2710 Xapian-bindings 1.0.0 (2007-05-17):
2714 * Document Unicode support for each language.
2716 * Assorted minor improvements and typo fixes.
2720 * Add wrappers for ExpandDecider, and Enquire::get_eset() variants which use
2721 it, for languages where SWIG supports directors.
2723 * Wrap new features: TermGenerator, ValueRangeProcessor hierarchy, the
2724 OP_VALUE_RANGE query operator, the new overloaded form of parse_query, which
2725 allows the "default_prefix" argument to be supplied, QueryParser flags
2726 FLAG_PURE_NOT and FLAG_PARTIAL.
2728 * Deprecated Xapian::Stem's stem_word() method in favour of apply().
2730 * Remove wrappers for deprecated features removed from the C++ API (see
2731 docs/deprecation.html in xapian-core for full details and upgrade
2734 * Deprecate ESetIterator::get_termname() in favour of ESetIterator::get_term().
2736 * QueryParserError is now a real error, so remove special handling for "const
2739 * Use a stamp file in "make" rules with multiple targets so that parallel
2742 * configure: Now quotes $PYTHON, etc so that you can specify a program with
2745 * configure: If the user specifies a program which doesn't exist (e.g.
2746 PYTHON=/opt/bin/ptyhon) don't autoprobe after failing to find it.
2748 * configure: Disable probes for f77, gcj, and rc completely by preventing
2749 the probe code from even appearing in configure - this reduces the size of
2750 configure by 28% and should speed it up significantly.
2752 * configure: If the version check against the xapian-core version detects a
2753 mismatch, we now issue a warning rather than a hard error since if you're
2754 careful this can work. The warning is issued late on in configure, so it's
2755 harder for the user to miss.
2757 * configure: The --with-swig option has been removed. It no longer has a
2758 purpose as we now ship the files which are generated by SWIG.
2762 * The PHP bindings can now be built with MSVC for Microsoft Windows.
2766 * When using Mono 1.2, we must build with gmcs (the C# 2.0 compiler) rather
2767 than mcs to avoid segmentation faults at runtime due to unimplemented
2768 features in mcs. Document this, and update configure to prefer gmcs.
2770 * The return type of MatchDecider::operator() is now `bool' rather than `int'
2771 (in line with the same change in the C++ API).
2773 * Xapian.Stem.StemWord() deprecated in favour of Xapian.Stem.Apply().
2777 * The Java bindings have been updated to use C++ replacements for deprecated
2778 methods, so they still build. The Java wrappers still provide the old
2779 deprecated names for now though. The longer term plan is to replace the
2780 hand-written JNI with SWIG generated wrappers (work has now begun on this)
2781 which is likely to require some API changes, and it seems more sensible to
2782 make any changes to align with C++ API changes at the same time.
2784 * Enquire.getQuery() is implemented entirely in Java, so strip out the unused
2785 MyQuery mechanism, and so fix a memory link which it caused (bug#105).
2789 * Fix undefined behaviour in get_matching_terms().
2791 * Document the (existing) renaming of methods which are PHP reserved words
2792 (empty() to is_empty() and clone() to clone_object()).
2794 * Deprecated Xapian::Stem's stem_word() method in favour of apply().
2798 * The Python bindings now throw exceptions as classes with a hierarchy which
2799 mirrors that of the C++ Xapian::Error and its subclasses. The xapian.Error
2800 base class inherits from the standard Python Exception class.
2802 * All Python methods which accept strings can now be passed either a unicode
2803 object or a simple string. Strings are returned as simple strings: unicode
2804 input will be returned as utf-8 encoded output. The documentation now
2805 contains a "Unicode" section.
2807 * The Python bindings should now be usable more efficiently from threaded
2808 Python applications since we now use SWIG's -threads option when generating
2809 them, so that the GIL is released during long-running Xapian operations
2812 * Most classes, methods, functions, etc now have docstrings which are either
2813 automatically extracted from the C++ documentation comments, or overridden by
2814 more appropriate versions.
2816 * Most of the Pythonic iterators now return an object instead of a sequence,
2817 which means they now lazily fetch the information which previously had to be
2818 fetched to put it in the sequence. The old sequence API is supported for
2819 compatibility, but is scheduled for removal in Xapian 1.1.0.
2821 * Those Python iterators which have skip_to() methods now return the item
2822 skipped to, and next() will return the following item. Previously, they
2823 returned None, and next() returned the item skipped to. Several bugs in the
2824 skip_to() wrappers were fixed.
2826 * Because of the lazy access, some objects returned by iterators will raise
2827 an error if the lazy evaluation happens after the iterator has moved on
2828 (since the underlying Xapian API doesn't allow efficient access to the
2829 information in this situation). The exact semantics are defined in the
2830 docstrings for each iterator.
2832 * Those Pythonic iterators which return only a list of terms now return
2833 simple strings, instead of a sequence or an object containing the term. This
2834 is an incompatible change with earlier releases. The affected iterators are
2835 Enquire.matching_terms, Query.__iter__, QueryParser.stoplist and
2836 QueryParser.unstemlist.
2838 * The contents of an MSet can now be iterated in the standard Python way.
2839 The iteration will return MSetItem objects. The __contains__ and __getitem__
2840 methods are also implemented, allowing the "in" and [] operators to work.
2841 MSet.__getitem__ is a synonym for MSet.get_hit.
2843 * MSet.get_hit() now returns an MSetItem object instead of an MSetIterator,
2844 so that lazy access to its attributes is supported. MSetItem has some
2845 deprecated methods which mimic the MSetIterator interface to allow old code
2846 to work without modification until release 1.1.0.
2848 * MSetItem provides access to the collapse_key and collapse_count, which
2849 weren't accessible from the sequence returned by the iterators before this
2852 * Out-of-range access to MSets will now raise an IndexError - it used to
2853 cause undefined behaviour (usually a crash).
2855 * The Python testsuite is now much more extensive, and supports colour output
2856 and verbosity levels, much like the C++ testsuite. Tests of deprecated
2857 features are separated out, so that they can easily be removed when the
2858 features are removed. The Python tests currently focus mainly on Python
2859 specific iterators and related functionality - general Xapian behaviour is
2860 tested by the C++ testsuite.
2862 * The pure Python code in the bindings now uses new-style classes, since we
2863 have required Python >= 2.2 since Xapian release 0.9.9.
2865 * Enquire.get_matching_terms is now deprecated - use Enquire.matching_terms
2868 * The get_description() method which many classes support has been deprecated
2869 in favour of new more pythonic __str__ methods, so that the str() builtin can
2870 be used. get_description() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in 1.1.0.
2874 * We no longer regard the Ruby bindings as "beta quality", so remove the
2875 warning from their documentation.
2877 * Document that that C++ operator() becomes the method "call" in Ruby.
2879 * Don't read termfreq in safe wrapper for Document::termlist_begin(). Don't
2880 read wdf in safe wrapper for Database::allterms_begin() (bug#133).
2884 * Deprecated Xapian::Stem's stem_word() method in favour of apply().
2886 Xapian-bindings 0.9.10.1 (2007-04-04):
2890 * Fix PHP5 class wrapper generation in a few cases for overloaded methods with
2891 default parameters. The most notable case was a missing Query constructor
2892 which meant that QueryParser was unusable.
2894 * Fix compilation of the PHP4 bindings with ZTS-enabled versions of PHP
2895 (which mostly seems to mean the MS Windows version).
2897 * Fix PHP5 crash on exit with ZTS-enabled versions of PHP (which mostly
2898 seems to mean the MS Windows version).
2900 * Add note to the documentation that PHP examples are written for CLI version
2901 of PHP, but that the bindings work with any version.
2903 * Add check to all PHP examples that they are being run under a CLI version of
2908 * simpleexpand.py: Print each term's expand weight as a floating point value,
2913 * INSTALL: document how to install Xapian's Ruby bindings in your home
2916 Xapian-bindings 0.9.10 (2007-03-04):
2920 * Under Mac OS X, automatically look in the standard location for jni.h,
2921 and automatically rename the JNI library we build to ".jnilib", as is
2922 required by the OS X JVM.
2924 * java/README: Note success with Sun's JDK 1.5.0_06-b05, plus the requirement
2925 to add the linux header directory to the include path when using this JDK.
2927 * Add missing default constructor for RSet class - it's not much use without
2930 * Fix Enquire.getESet() to actually work.
2932 * Fix bug in ESetIterator.hasNext().
2934 * Fix MatchDecider and ExpandDecider so subclassing in Java actually works.
2936 * Fix memory leak with some JVMs in the "Query from array" constructor.
2938 * Fix memory leak in Enquire.setQuery().
2940 * SmokeTest.java: Add regression tests for RSet default constructor,
2941 Enquire.getESet(), ESetIterator.hasNext(), MatchDecider, ExpandDecider.
2942 Add feature tests for Enquire.getQuery(), and to make sure we get passed
2943 the right document in a java subclass of MatchDecider.
2945 * configure: Look for jni.h in $JAVA_HOME/include and $JDK_HOME/include if the
2946 respective variables are set.
2950 * Update the documentation to fix out-of-date information and document the
2951 differences between the PHP4 and PHP5 wrappers.
2953 * Update the examples to use the new Object Oriented API, and provide versions
2954 for both PHP4 and PHP5.
2956 * Add a "simpleexpand" example.
2958 * For PHP4, Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN should be wrapped as
2959 Xapian_DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN not DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN, so wrap it with the
2960 new name, but keep the old name for now for backward compatibility.
2962 * configure: Try `$(PHP_CONFIG) --php-binary` when looking for a PHP
2963 interpreter - this works with PHP5.
2965 * configure: Remove the sanity check for PHP_EXTENSION_DIR added in Xapian
2966 0.9.8 - if Xapian is the first PHP extension to be installed, the extension
2967 directory may not exist and "make install" will create it.
2969 * configure: If zend.h isn't found and configure was run with "--with-php",
2970 exit with an error rather than automatically disabling PHP support.
2974 * Fix a problem which preventing building for Python 2.5 on 64 bit platforms.
2978 * RPMs: Add support for passing "--without python" to rpmbuild. Document the
2979 various "--without" options in a comment at the start of the .spec file.
2981 * RPMs: Remove "." from the end of the Summary.
2983 Xapian-bindings 0.9.9 (2006-11-09):
2987 * Ship our custom INSTALL file rather than the generic one from autoconf which
2988 we've accidentally been shipping instead since 0.9.5.
2992 * Wrap Flint::open() and Flint::open_writable().
2994 * configure: Require SWIG 1.3.30 (1.3.30 isn't out yet, but 1.3.30rc1 is
2999 * Generate the bindings using SWIG 1.3.30rc1 which fixes a build error on 64
3000 bit platforms with Python 2.5.
3004 * RPMs: Prevent binaries getting an rpath for /usr/lib64 on FC6.
3006 * RPMs: The Python bindings now require Python >= 2.2.
3010 * configure: Remove unnecessary backticks from tclsh version test.
3012 Xapian-bindings 0.9.8 (2006-11-02):
3016 * Wrap the "prog" form of Remote::open() (which is suitable for general purpose
3017 use as of 0.9.7) and the Remote::open_writable() methods (new in 0.9.7).
3019 * The C++ method QueryParser::parse_query() current throws "std:string"
3020 exceptions if there's a parse error. Previously the bindings didn't catch
3021 these. Now we catch them and handle them as if they were exceptions of
3022 type Xapian::QueryParserError (in anticipation of this changing in
3023 xapian-core). Added testcases for this for PHP, Python, and C#.
3025 * configure: Note that SWIG is only useful for Xapian developers in --help
3028 * configure: If we failed to find any languages to build for, give a more
3033 * SmokeTest.cs: Fix warning about unused variable in OP_ELITE_SET check.
3037 * configure: Fix check for jni.h in /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/include to actually
3038 work rather than using the cached failure of the first jni.h check.
3040 * SmokeTest.java: Fix check for value of Query.OP_ELITE_SET.
3042 * SmokeTest.java: Avoid gcj "set but not used" warning.
3046 * configure: Sanity check PHP_EXTENSION_DIR and PHP_INC.
3048 * smoketest4.php,smoketest5.php: Check the exception message given by the
3049 DocNotFoundError testcase.
3053 * Drop support for Python 2.1.
3055 Xapian-bindings 0.9.7 (2006-10-10):
3059 * NEWS: Fix the recent headings which said "Xapian-core" to say
3064 * Specify required automake version in the call to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in
3067 * If we're building with GCC 4.0 or higher, pass -fvisibility=hidden when
3068 compiling SWIG generated code which makes the compiled modules a few percent
3069 smaller and perhaps a little faster.
3071 * Wrap the newly implemented transaction API.
3073 * configure: Use "-fno-strict-aliasing" when compiling all the SWIG bindings
3074 (this option was supposed to be used to compile the Python bindings from
3075 0.9.3 onwards, but this wasn't actually working correctly).
3077 * Use CVS snapshot of SWIG to generate files (fixes bugs #83, #85).
3079 * In maintainer-mode, "make clean" now removes the SWIG generated files
3080 which would otherwise only be removed on "make maintainer-clean".
3084 * Xapian::MatchDecider can now be subclassed in C#.
3086 * The value of OP_ELITE_SET was wrong in C# which caused an error if you tried
3087 to use it. This has been fixed and a regression test added.
3089 * SmokeTest.cs: Added exception handling test.
3093 * Correct two misuses of delete to delete[]. Fixes bug#78.
3095 * configure: We need to look for jni.h in /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/include on some
3096 Debian and Ubuntu boxes at least.
3100 * We now generate class wrappers for PHP5.
3102 * We now generate proxy classes for PHP4, which is an incompatible change
3103 from previous versions of xapian-bindings. A perl script to upgrade
3104 your scripts is included.
3108 + Now that we're throwing PHP exceptions with PHP5 we need separate versions
3109 of the exception handling test for PHP4 and PHP5. Fixes bug#76.
3111 + Rely on xapian.php to load the extension module for us.
3113 + Fix error messages to show PHP code, not Python code.
3115 * When running smoketest.php, pass the "-q" option to php, which suppresses
3116 HTTP header output for PHP < 4.3 and is ignored for compatibility by more
3117 recent versions of PHP.
3119 * configure: Fix typo - PHP_tried should be PHP_found. This might have caused
3120 the PHP interpreter not to be found in some cases when it was actually
3121 available, but it's only used to run the smoketest not for building the
3126 * configure: Fixed check for PYTHON_PATHSEP to use $PYTHON rather than python,
3127 and also report the check and its result to the user.
3129 * python/Makefile.am: xapian.pyc can't be generated until _xapian.la has been
3130 built, so add an explicit dependency so that this works reliably in parallel
3131 builds. Fixes bug#77.
3133 * In examples and documentation, don't call the MatchDecider class/object
3134 "matcher", since we use the term "matcher" to mean something else in
3135 the library documentation.
3139 + Add test of exception handling.
3141 + Add test that MatchDecider can be subclassed successfully.
3143 * Wrap TermIterator::skip_to() so that it can be used from the TermIter
3144 pythonic iterator class.
3148 * Xapian::MatchDecider can now be subclassed in Ruby.
3150 * configure: Look for ruby interpreter as "ruby1.8" since it's called that
3151 (with no "ruby" alias) on Ubuntu dapper at least.
3153 * simplesearch.rb: Lowercase terms before stemming. "First ten" is inaccurate
3154 since we may have less than 10 matches, so say "1-<N>" instead.
3156 * simplematchdecider.rb: Implemented.
3160 * Implement saner exception handling for Tcl and document it.
3164 + Add check that xapian::Query_OP_ELITE_SET has the right value.
3166 + Rework how the smoketest gets run to eliminate special code for using
3167 uninstalled bindings from smoketest.tcl itself. This allows the smoketest
3168 to be run using installed bindings, and also makes it a better example
3171 + Add test for exception handling.
3173 + Send error messages to stderr.
3175 + Add comment about Tcl storing zero bytes as \xc0\x80.
3177 * simpleindex.tcl,simplesearch.tcl: Print $errorCode in the exception handler.
3179 * For SVN snapshots, remove any _svn6789 suffix from the Xapian version number
3180 used for the Tcl bindings.
3182 Xapian-bindings 0.9.6 (2006-05-15):
3186 * INSTALL: Add section describing how to install without root access.
3190 * Updated to reflect the renaming of Xapian::xapian_version_string and
3191 companions to Xapian::version_string.
3193 * Wrap optional length parameter to Enquire::set_query().
3195 * In PHP, Python, and Tcl bindings, rename get_document_id to get_docid for
3196 consistency. Keep get_document_id as an alias for now for backward
3199 * Fixed ESet::empty() to return bool instead of Xapian::termcount (this was
3200 probably a largely harmless error).
3202 * Stop SWIG from adding exception handling wrappers to the calls which return
3203 version strings, since they can't throw exceptions.
3205 * xapian.i: Removed superfluous "const" from return type "docid" which is just
3206 a typedef for an unsigned integer type.
3208 * configure: Add some missing "checking ..." messages so the user has more idea
3211 * Language specific util.i files can now define
3212 XAPIAN_TERMITERATOR_PAIR_OUTPUT_TYPEMAP and
3213 XAPIAN_MIXED_VECTOR_QUERY_INPUT_TYPEMAP to indicate which optional typemaps
3214 are provided for each language. This avoids needing to keep this
3215 information in two different places.
3217 * xapian.i: Uncomment commented-out parameter names and fix duplicate
3218 parameter names (for the benefit of bindings which use the parameter names,
3219 like the OO PHP5 patch for SWIG I'm working on...)
3223 * configure: Fix warning flags passed for Intel C++ compiler.
3227 * We now support building with Portable.NET.
3229 * Note that the passing of strings from C# into Xapian and back isn't currently
3230 zero byte safe. If you try to handle string containing zero bytes, you'll
3231 find they get truncated at the zero byte.
3233 * C# bindings now build and pass tests when srcdir != builddir.
3235 * In configure.ac, the "#" in "C#" seems to sometimes confuse autoconf so
3236 always say "CSharp" instead.
3238 * Not all machines are set up to run compiled C# programs when invoked
3239 directly, so get configure to check if we can, and otherwise see if using
3240 mono or ilrun works. If not, just skip the C# tests.
3242 * configure: If "mcs" isn't found, we now look for a CSharp compiler as "gmcs"
3243 (alternative name for "mcs"), "cscc" (Portable.NET), and then "csc"
3244 (Microsoft, but we check it isn't the unrelated Chicken csc program.)
3246 * Move the C# specific %rename list to csharp/util.i.
3248 * Store the strong name key in the key container so we reuse it for later
3251 * Wrap the version functions as more sensible names and document them (and
3252 continue to provide the older undocumented names for now just in case anyone
3255 * Set the version of XapianSharp.dll correctly when building a snapshot from
3256 SVN and set informational attributes (which e.g. MS Windows Explorer shows.)
3258 * SmokeTest.cs: Add test of version functions.
3262 * The Guile bindings don't work and aren't being actively worked on, so we're
3263 no longer including them in the distributed tarball to avoid disappointing
3264 users who notice a "guile" subdirectory. It also makes the download smaller.
3268 * Simplify (and improve portability of) run-java-test by using "libtool
3269 --mode=execute"'s -dlopen option.
3271 * Need to make sure "built" subdirectory exists or building from clean fails.
3273 * Fix "make check" to work when srcdir != builddir.
3277 * Using "php -c myphp.ini" still loads the system php.ini (at least for PHP
3278 4.3.10), so use "php -n" and then set the options we specifically want using
3281 * Fix the smoketest invocation to work better when srcdir != builddir.
3283 * Look for PHP interpreter first in prefix given by "php-config --prefix".
3285 * Fix SWIG_RuntimeError to be handled as an exception in PHP5.
3287 * simplesearch.php: MAX_PROB_TERM_LENGTH isn't used here so remove it.
3291 + Add test for version reporting functions
3293 + If a test fails, say which one to aid debugging.
3295 + Added simple test that zero-bytes are handled correctly when passing
3296 strings to and from Xapian.
3300 * README: Note that Python bindings have been built with MSVC.
3302 * Install xapian.py and xapian.pyc as _DATA not _SCRIPTS because we don't want
3303 to make them executable (they don't have a #! line).
3305 * simplematchdecider.py: Rename confusingly-named "mymatcher" to
3306 "mymatchdecider". Add description of what this example does.
3308 * simpleexpand.py: Don't define MAX_PROB_TERM_LENGTH as it isn't used.
3310 * smoketest.py: Added simple test that zero-bytes are handled when passing
3311 strings to and from Xapian.
3315 * Added new Ruby bindings from Paul Legato.
3321 + Add test for version reporting functions
3323 + If a test fails, say which one to aid debugging.
3325 + Added simple test that zero-bytes are handled correctly when passing
3326 strings to and from Xapian.
3328 Xapian-bindings 0.9.5 (2006-04-08):
3332 * HACKING,README: Split off HACKING to contain information which is only
3333 relevant to those wishing to modify the bindings.
3337 * SWIG-based bindings are now built with SWIG 1.3.29.
3339 * configure: Report which languages we're building bindings for just before
3342 * xapian.i: Make the stub definitions for disabled backends static.
3344 * configure: Don't quote $PHP in AC_PATH_PROGS to avoid "checking for ... no"
3347 * xapian.i: Wrap new method Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance_then_value().
3351 * RPMs: xapian-bindings.spec.in: Use "%{_libdir}" instead of "/usr/lib" for
3352 Python bindings to support 64 bit systems.
3354 * RPMs: Package the C# bindings.
3358 * java/run-java-test: Fix to work on platforms where LD_LIBRARY_PATH has a
3361 * configure: Detect Intel's C++ compiler and set suitable warning flags to
3362 avoid noise from compiling generated code.
3366 * Rename Database::GetDoccount() to Database::GetDocCount() for consistency.
3370 * configure: Disable --with-guile since Guile support doesn't currently work.
3374 * Override deprecation warnings for Xapian methods/functions/etc.
3376 * SmokeTest.java: Write a helpful diagnostic to stderr if a check fails so we
3377 have some idea what went wrong!
3379 * Rework how we include headers to get hash_map to avoid compiler warnings
3380 since it's usually not in the std namespace nowadays.
3382 * Previously the "all" target also ran the "install" target, but this has
3383 proved very problematic, so change "make check" to use the uninstalled JNI
3384 glue library, and update the instructions to say that "make install" is now
3387 * Use JAVA_PATHSEP when specifying the classpath for compiling .java files to
3390 * README: Note that some platforms need "-pthread" or similar flags.
3392 * Add a new Query constructor wrapper which take an OP_xxx and an array of
3395 * Compiling a .java file to a .class file now deletes the .jar file to ensure
3400 * php -n avoids reading any php.ini, but the compiled in default may be to
3401 enable the dubiously named "safe_mode" which prevents dl() being used so
3402 "make check" fails. So instead provide a very simple php.ini which turns off
3403 safe_mode and makes sure enable_dl is on.
3405 * Fix handling of bool parameters when resolving overloaded methods and/or
3406 default arguments. This fixes Enquire_sort_by_value() to work when the
3407 second argument is specified. Added regression test for this case.
3409 * simpleindex.php: Lowercase terms before stemming. Fixes bug#73.
3411 * Fix segmentation fault when PHP "Null" is passed where C++ wants an object
3412 passed by reference. Fixes bug#74.
3414 * simpleindex.php: Flushing after every call to WritableDatabase_add_document
3415 isn't required and will kill performance, so stop doing it. Fixes bug#75.
3419 * Use the fairly new "swig -O" option for the "modern" python bindings as
3420 it generates a smaller glue library and runs faster. Some of the features
3421 enabled also work on python 2.1, so enable these for the "olde" bindings.
3423 * configure: Catch the case where the user has python installed but not the
3424 module "distutils.sysconfig" and explain that they probably need to install a
3425 python-dev or python-devel package.
3427 * "make check" now works in VPATH builds.
3429 * smoketest.py: If a check fails, write a diagnostic message to stderr so we
3430 know which check it was!
3432 * smoketest.py: catch Exception objects and print them.
3434 * smoketest.py: Add feature tests for the various pythonic iterator
3437 * python/docs/bindings.html: Document the Pythonic iterators.
3439 * Fix TermIter not to try to read termfreqs or positions if they aren't
3440 meaningful for the current TermIter.
3442 Xapian-bindings 0.9.4 (2006-02-21):
3446 * COPYING: Updated FSF address.
3450 * Wrap Stopper::get_description().
3452 * Wrap xapian_version_string() and related functions.
3456 * If we're overriding MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET then override it for commands
3457 run from "make" too.
3461 * Fix so that generated code compiles with ZTS-enabled PHP (which is the
3462 default on Windows).
3466 * smoketest.py: Test wrapping of xapian_version_string() and related functions.
3468 Xapian-bindings 0.9.3 (2006-02-16):
3472 * README: Updated and expanded (now covers supported platforms, and lists
3473 criteria which bindings for an additional language need to fulfil before
3474 we're likely to accept them).
3476 * INSTALL: Updated and improved.
3478 * TODO: Move C#-specific TODO to top level so we can track to-do items for
3483 * configure: Change how the user selects which bindings to build. If no
3484 --with* arguments are passed, then we default to building bindings we detect
3485 the required tools for (as before). But instead of requiring the user to
3486 deselect all bindings they don't actually want, we now let them select the
3487 bindings they do want. So "./configure --with-python" will only build the
3488 python bindings (and will fail if the required tools aren't installed).
3490 * Every wrapped method contains exception handling code. The bulk of this
3491 is now factored out into a single helper function, which cuts the compile
3492 time by around a factor of 3 and halves the size of the stripped library
3493 (figures are for Tcl on x86_64).
3495 * configure: Rework how XAPIAN_CXXFLAGS is passed through so that the user can
3496 override CXXFLAGS in the make invocation like so: make CXXFLAGS=-g
3498 * configure: Bump required SWIG version to 1.3.28 and drop the special
3499 requirement for 1.3.22 for PHP (hurrah!) Note that you don't need
3500 SWIG to install the bindings - SWIG is run by the Xapian developers
3501 so these updated requirements are only relevant if you want to modify
3504 * Eliminate separate Makefile in each examples subdirectory, which makes the
3505 build system simpler, smaller, and a little faster.
3507 * xapian.i: Include default constructors for all classes so that SWIG knows it
3508 doesn't have to use SwigValueWrapper for them, which makes the bindings code
3509 a bit smaller and faster. Also stop SWIG using SwigValueWrapper for
3512 * configure: Document special environmental variables which configure
3513 recognises. Enhance handling of environmental variables so you can
3514 e.g. './configure PYTHON=python23' (previously you had to give a full
3515 path in such environmental variables or they would be ignored.
3521 + Automatically detect the python version.
3523 + Rename "php4" references to "php".
3525 + Automatically detect the PHP extension directory.
3527 + Relax Tcl requirement to >= 8.1, since that's what we actually require.
3529 + Add support for "--without php" and --without tcl8" options to rpmbuild.
3533 * configure: On Mac OS X, ensure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set to at least
3534 10.3. This is required to link the bindings, and it doesn't seem to be
3535 possible to link them on 10.1 or 10.2 anyway.
3537 * configure: Add -lstdc++ to XAPIAN_LIBS if we're using GCC. OpenBSD needs it
3538 to be explicitly specified and libtool correctly handles platforms where it
3539 would have been implicitly linked with anyway.
3541 * Try to enable PHP bindings to build out of the box on cygwin (needs testing).
3543 * configure: Add missing ";;" on the last alternative in some case statements.
3545 * Only pass -no-undefined on platforms where it is required in order to link a
3546 shared library at all (it causes problems on Mac OS X in some cases).
3550 * This release includes a lot of improvements for the C# bindings. They're
3551 now pretty much on a par with the other language bindings.
3553 * Added documentation and examples.
3555 * Method and function names are now renamed to match C# conventions
3556 (e.g. from get_description() to GetDescription()). This is obviously an
3557 incompatible change, but the C# bindings haven't been suitable for real world
3558 use prior to this release.
3560 * Optional parameters are now wrapped so no longer need be specified
3563 * Overload ++ and -- for iterators.
3565 * Overload == and != for iterators. Now comparisons with the end iterator
3566 work as expected, and SmokeTest passes.
3568 * SmokeTest now reports exceptions verbosely.
3570 * Xapian::InMemory::open() is now wrapped as Xapian.InMemory.Open(), and
3571 similarly for other database factory functions.
3573 * Heed compatibility warnings from mcs and use different forms for
3574 command-line switches to the C# compiler (presumably for compatibility with
3575 Microsoft's compiler, though the warnings don't actually say that
3580 * Rewrote guile/util.i. The old version caused SWIG warnings and wasn't
3581 zero-byte safe. The guile bindings are still a long way from actually
3586 * Wrap optional second parameter (query length) to Enquire::set_query().
3588 * configure now probes for the Java path separator, which we then use to
3589 separate entries in the java -classpath command line option so we can
3590 build on platforms where it isn't ":".
3592 * SmokeTest.java: Expand to test more features.
3596 + Note that the bindings work with the Eclipse javac and GIJ 4.0.1.
3598 + Add note about how wrapped methods are named.
3600 * Query.java: OP_* code 9 no longer exists, so add it to those rejected by the
3603 * Query.java: Comment out unused code.
3605 * Fixed memory leak in Query-from-array-of-strings constructor.
3607 * Eliminate the "_errormap" hashmap - we don't need to use RTTI here, since
3608 Xapian::Error subclasses can tell you their typename directly (using
3613 * Some problems with overloaded methods in PHP have been fixed by a major
3614 overhaul of SWIG's PHP support. So we no longer rename such methods
3615 for PHP. This is an incompatible change, but it's easy to update your
3616 PHP scripts (just change new_Query_from_term_pair -> new_Query, etc).
3618 * Previously the documentation and simpleindex.php suggested that you
3619 should call delete_CLASS(). This was incorrect and resulted in a
3620 double-free() in some cases, so we've fixed the documentation and
3621 examples and eliminated the delete_CLASS() wrappers. This is another
3622 incompatible change, but again easy to update for.
3624 * We now support PHP5 as well as PHP4, so the configure test now looks
3625 for either and all references to "PHP4" or "php4" have been adjusted.
3627 * PHP5 supports exceptions, so throw exceptions under PHP5. For PHP4
3628 we now handle DocNotFoundError and FeatureUnavailableError by issuing a
3629 warning and making the method return "Null". This isn't ideal, but it's
3630 the best we can easily do without proper exceptions.
3632 * For the smoketest, instead of using "$(PHP) -c $(srcdir)" and having an
3633 empty php.ini in srcdir (which we were failing to distribute anyway), use
3634 "$(PHP) -n" which tells PHP not to use any php.ini file.
3636 * Update PHP documentation to include new features.
3638 * Redo Xapian section in phpinfo() to look more like most other modules.
3640 * You can now construct a Query object from an array of strings or Query
3641 objects (or even a mixture).
3643 * PHP examples now give a more useful error message if a database can't be
3646 * smoketest.php: Expanded the tests performed, including feature tests for
3647 the new Query-from-list constuctor.
3649 * simplesearch.php: Use newly wrapped Query-from-list constructor.
3651 * Use std::string::data() instead of c_str() as it may be more efficient for
3652 some STL implementations.
3654 * Enquire::get_matching_terms() now generates the PHP list directly from the
3655 TermIterator rather than constructing a temporary C++ std::list, which is
3656 faster and requires less temporary memory.
3660 * The Python constructor xapian.Query(OP, LIST_OF_STRINGS [, PARAM]) works
3661 once again (it has been broken since 0.9.0). Added a regression test to
3662 help keep this working.
3664 * Enhance the above constructor to accept any Python sequence (e.g. a tuple
3665 instead of a list). Also the sequence can contain xapian.Query objects or
3666 strings or a mixture. Documented these enhancements.
3668 * smoketest.py: Expanded the tests performed.
3670 * Convert C++ strings to python ones in a zero-byte clean way.
3672 * Added more error checking of the results of calls into the python
3675 * If using GCC, compile the python bindings with -fno-strict-aliasing (python
3676 itself is compiled with this option to avoid problems and it appears we ought
3677 to use it too to avoid the risk of hitting the same problems, although I'm
3678 not aware of anyone actually encountering such problems).
3680 * When making xapian.pyc, "import _xapian;" before we "import xapian;" to
3681 avoid creating a broken xapian.pyc is the shared library can't be loaded for
3684 * Enquire::get_matching_terms() now generates the Python list directly from the
3685 TermIterator rather than constructing a temporary C++ std::list, which is
3686 faster and requires less temporary memory.
3690 * Terms with a leading underscore now work (thanks to changes in SWIG).
3692 * Implement custom typemaps for Tcl, so that you can now construct a Query from
3693 a list of Query objects and/or strings, and Enquire::get_matching_terms is
3696 * simplesearch.tcl: Use the new Query from list constructor.
3698 * simplesearch.tcl: Fix to lowercase and stem query terms.
3700 * simpleindex.tcl: Tweak regex to not tokenise "foo--bar" as "foo-" and "bar".
3702 * simpleindex.tcl,simplesearch.tcl: Need explicit "xapian::" on constants.
3704 Xapian-bindings 0.9.2 (2005-07-15):
3708 * Added wrappers for new optional flags argument to QueryParser::parse_query().
3712 * Enhance configure to check that "mcs" is actually GNU Mono mcs and not
3713 another tool with the same name.
3717 * Include SmokeTest.java in the distribution so "make check" works.
3719 * Added success report for Sun java 1.4.1_01a.
3723 * When converting a python list to vector<string> we know the number of elements
3724 so reserve that number in the vector.
3726 Xapian-bindings 0.9.1 (2005-06-06):
3730 * Releases are now created using libtool 1.5.18 and automake 1.9.5.
3734 * Updated documentation to include information from Michael Schlenker about how
3735 to delete a database object such that the destructor gets called.
3737 Xapian-bindings 0.9.0 (2005-05-13):
3741 * Updated SWIG-based bindings to latest Xapian API
3743 * Improve support for building the bindings on MS Windows:
3745 + Provide stub versions of any backend functions which are disabled in the
3746 library we're wrapping to avoid a link failure on MS Windows (where the
3747 remote backend is automatically disabled). These stubs just throw
3748 Xapian::FeatureUnavailableError.
3750 + Add -no-undefined to *_la_LDFLAGS.
3752 + Use $(PATH_SEPARATOR) or Python's os.pathsep instead of ':' where
3755 + For python, paths for finding headers and installing libraries are now
3756 handled so they work on MS Windows; an extra static library needs to be
3759 * Wrap the Muscat36 Database factory functions (easy to do now we have stubs
3760 for disabled backends).
3762 * Don't wrap MSet::max_size() as it's there for STL compatibility rather than
3763 being useful functionality.
3765 * configure: Fix all SWIG warnings and pass -Werror to SWIG so any which get
3766 introduced in future get fixed.
3768 * configure: Fix version test to allow for _svn6789 suffix which SVN snapshots
3771 * Generate SWIG bindings with SWIG 1.3.24 (except for PHP which we still use
3772 1.3.22 for as more recent versions don't work with methods with optional
3773 arguments - the arguments become non-optional!)
3777 * configure: Disable guile by default, as it needs more work.
3781 * Updated to compile against 0.9.0 API.
3783 * Added missing make rule to build SmokeTestWrap.class to "make check" works.
3785 * Wrap optional parameters to Query(term) constructor.
3789 * For PHP4, rename default Database constructor to Database_empty
3790 instead of suppressing the much more useful Database(const string &path)
3793 * Use a blank config file when running PHP4 tests to avoid problems
3794 when the bindings are already installed as an extension which is
3795 loaded automatically in the default config.
3797 * configure.ac: If configure can't find the PHP interpreter (as php4 or php),
3798 it probably just means it's not in PATH. We only need it for running tests,
3799 so substitute a trivial shell script which just exits with code 77 so PHP
3800 tests are skipped (previously we substituted "missing" which caused the tests
3805 * Added Python-style iterators ESetIter, TermIter, PostingIter, PositionIter,
3808 * configure: If python is found, also check that Python.h exists (it may not be
3809 if the python-dev package (or similar) isn't installed).
3811 Xapian-bindings 0.8.5.1 (2005-02-23):
3815 * configure: Run compiler feature tests using the C++ compiler, not the C
3818 * Allow bindings version to have an extra "patchlevel", yet still match with
3819 corresponding xapian-core version (e.g. 0.8.5.1 and 0.8.5);
3823 * Added a missing .java source file and removed several unused ones.
3825 * Fixed several glitches in the java bindings automake build system.
3827 * Use "-Wno-unused" when compiling JNI C++ code to ignore harmless
3828 warnings in generated code (we were carefully passing "-Wunused"
3829 which is the opposite of what is needed!)
3831 * Fixed a couple of warnings from GCJ.
3833 * Wrapped a few missing methods added since Eric created the bindings. There
3834 are still some missing methods - there's now a (probably incomplete) list in
3837 * Added various useful bits of information to java/README.
3839 * Tweaked SimpleSearch.java to be more like the C++ version.
3843 * 0.8.5 was generated with SWIG 1.3.24, but PHP support is broken there so
3844 we now generate the PHP bindings with SWIG 1.3.22 and everything else with
3845 a more recent version.
3847 * configure: Check for "php" as a program name as well as "php4", and
3848 fall-back to missing so the error message from "make check" is better.
3850 Xapian-bindings 0.8.5 (2004-12-23):
3854 * INSTALL: Added non-generic installation instructions.
3858 * Fixed bytecode compilation of xapian.py. xapian.pyc was being generated in
3859 the same directory as xapian.py, but Makefile.am was looking in current
3860 directory when installing it. Additionally, VPATH builds were broken.
3861 These problems were introduced by changes in 0.8.4.
3863 Xapian-bindings 0.8.4 (2004-12-08):
3867 * README: Now clearly says which languages we currently support, which people
3868 are working on, etc.
3870 * Instead of requiring the user to have a really recent SWIG installed, ship
3871 the files SWIG generates. Disable all the SWIG rules unless configure is run
3872 with --enable-maintainer-mode to make sure they aren't triggered accidentally
3873 (e.g. by make with dodgy VPATH).
3875 * configure: Require SWIG 1.3.22 or higher (but note that SWIG is no longer
3876 needed if you just want to install the bindings).
3878 * Wrap the new Database and WritableDatabase constructors which replace
3881 * It turns out that we do need to wrap MSet::MSet() (wrapping removed in 0.8.2)
3882 (for example, simpleexpand.py needs it).
3884 * In the Query constructor which takes a vector of terms, only call set_window
3885 if window is non-zero. Otherwise things go wrong if we're passed an empty
3888 * Second argument to Document::add_posting() isn't optional, but xapian.i
3889 indicated that it was.
3891 * xapian.i: Added wrappers for Xapian::Weight and standard subclasses.
3892 Deriving your own weight class in the scripting language isn't currently
3895 * xapian.i: %name is deprecated, so use %rename instead. This also works
3896 around a bug in SWIG 1.3.23.
3898 * configure: Removed pointless probe for a C compiler - everything we compile
3901 * configure: Reinstated the check that the bindings version matches the version
3902 of the xapian library. It was added in 0.8.2, but accidentally removed in
3905 * Use newly added option `xapian-config --swigflags` which (a) avoids always
3906 passing -I/usr/include which could cause problems if we're using a Xapian
3907 install not in /usr and there's another one in /usr and (b) avoids problems
3908 if `xapian-config --cxxflags` contains flags other than -I<something>.
3912 * Richard Boulton has put together bindings for C#. These build successfully
3913 with the Mono tools, but the smoketest currently fails. Unclear if the
3914 problem is the bindings or the smoketest code.
3918 * The guile bindings now build successfully, so we've enabled the guile
3919 detection machinery in configure. They're untested though (we don't
3920 know guile!) so success or failure reports are encouraged!
3924 * Mention the example scripts near the start of the documentation, not right at
3927 * Remove documentation explicitly saying how we wrap Xapian::QueryParser and
3928 Xapian::Stem since we wrap them exactly as we wrap everything else we don't
3933 * Make overloaded Query(Query::op, vector<string>*, termpos) constructor
3936 * Changed examples to use the newly wrapped Query from list of terms ctor.
3938 * Mention the example scripts near the start of the documentation, not right at
3941 * python/Makefile.am: Added xapian_wrap.h as a target for the rule which runs
3944 * Remove documentation explicitly saying how we wrap Xapian::QueryParser and
3945 Xapian::Stem since we wrap them exactly as we wrap everything else we don't
3948 * Mention simpleexpand example in documentation.
3950 * Examples now report messages for Xapian exceptions.
3952 * Removed MAX_PROB_TERM_LENGTH from example scripts which don't use it.
3954 * Make the example MatchDecider exclude documents matching a value, rather than
3955 a term. The latter is a very inefficient way to do what AND_NOT does, and we
3956 don't want examples to mislead like that.
3958 * python/docs/bindings.html: Note that you can construct a query
3959 from a list of terms, even if you can't from a list of queries.
3960 Add HTML links to the examples.
3962 * simpleindex.py: Trim spaces from the start as well as from the end of each
3963 line. Simplify the loop slightly.
3967 * Wrap in a tcl8 namespace "Xapian".
3969 * Added a smoketest.
3971 * Translated simpleindex and simplesearch into Tcl.
3973 * Set the Tcl package version.
3975 * Create pkgIndex.tcl so the package can be loaded in the usual Tcl way.
3977 * Install in "xapian<VERSION>" directory in the conventional Tcl way.
3979 * Added documentation for tcl8 bindings.
3981 * Use the TCL_STUBS mechanism so that compiled extensions are portable between
3982 different versions of Tcl. This needs Tcl 8.1, so bump the required Tcl
3985 * configure.ac: Noted that the bindings can easily be compiled for use with
3986 Tcl 8.0, in case anybody needs that for some reason.
3988 * Don't wrap the factory functions which return a quartz WritableDatabase as
3989 the destructor never gets called so changes aren't flushed and the lock file
3992 Xapian-bindings 0.8.3 (2004-09-20):
3996 * Fixed mismatching versions of libtool used to produce configure and
3997 ltmain.sh. The obvious symptom was ".so" missing from the shared object
4000 * RPM spec file contributed by Fabrice Colin. Currently this packages Python,
4001 PHP4, and Tcl bindings.
4005 * Pass -classpath to javac to fix build problems.
4007 * Make sure errors subdirectory is built before we try to build the jar file.
4009 * Fixed "make install" to not give libtool error.
4013 * Include PHP4 documentation and exmples in the tarball.
4015 * Reverted "Use special SWIG PHP ldflags when linking the PHP glue library."
4016 change from 0.8.2 - it turns out we only need to pass these flags if we use
4017 swig's -noruntime option (which we don't do).
4021 * Use swig's -modern switch for Python 2.2 and up - it gives cleaner, leaner,
4022 faster Python wrapper code.
4026 * Don't install xapian.la.
4028 * Improved configure check for tcl.h to work with Fedora Core 2.
4030 Xapian-bindings 0.8.2 (2004-09-13):
4034 * Added wrappers for recently added methods: ESet::back() and
4035 Database::get_lastdocid(), and wrap the new optional third parameter
4036 to Enquire::set_sorting().
4038 * No longer wrap MSet::MSet() - it's not of use in scripting languages.
4040 * Wrap operator-- as prev() for MSetIterator and ESetIterator.
4042 * Wrap Quartz, InMemory, and Remote database factory functions as
4043 quartz_open(), inmemory_open(), and remote_open().
4045 * Added missing wrappers for static Stem::get_available_languages() and
4046 Stem::get_description().
4048 * Wrap renamed method Query::empty() (was Query::is_empty()).
4050 * Remove renaming of other empty() methods to is_empty() (but keep is_empty()
4051 as an alias for now).
4053 * Require autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.8.5.
4055 * configure: Added check that the bindings version matches the version of
4058 * configure: Check if we're using GCC and only pass GCC specific warning
4059 control options if we are.
4061 * configure: When running with GCC, also pass -Wno-uninitialized so the
4062 SWIG glue builds without warnings.
4064 * README: Updated list of languages which SWIG supports.
4068 * Document that the 2 argument form of Xapian::Auto::open() for opening a
4069 writable database is wrapped as open_writable() (bug #32).
4071 * Include Xapian version in output from phpinfo().
4073 * Build the SWIG glue library like we build the others rather than using
4074 SWIG's -phpfull option. This avoids problems with newer automake versions
4075 and means we can build against an uninstalled xapian library.
4077 * Corrected documentation to refer to Xapian::DB_* not Xapian::Auto::DB_*.
4078 Fixed documentation of how Xapian::Query::OP_* are wrapped.
4080 * Use special SWIG PHP ldflags when linking the PHP glue library.
4082 * simplesearch.py now works with multi-term queries.
4084 * Added documentation on how to install the PHP4 bindings.
4086 * Added a simple testcase to at least ensure the PHP4 bindings can be
4087 initialised and some simple operations work.
4091 * configure: Now checks for Python >= 2.1 which we need for __cmp__ and __eq__.
4093 * Don't install _xapian.la and _xapian.a.
4095 * Byte compile xapian.py to xapian.pyc and install it.
4097 * Suppress SWIG warning about MatchDecider::operator() director discarding
4100 * "make clean" no longer leaves "xapian_wrap.h" behind.
4102 * Added a simple testcase to at least ensure the python bindings can be
4103 initialised and some simple operations work.
4107 * configure: Disable building tcl8 bindings if the headers are missing
4108 (probably because the tcl8.X-dev package isn't installed).
4110 Xapian-bindings 0.8.1 (2004-06-30):
4114 * configure: Require SWIG 1.3.20 or higher (previously was 1.3.14).
4116 * Add "-I/usr/include" to the swig line. This is needed when xapian is
4117 installed with a prefix of /usr, since "xapian-config --cxxflags" carefully
4118 doesn't emit -I/usr/include in this situation (because it causes problems
4119 with some GCC versions).
4121 * Fixed the %exception handler to cover all the exceptions Xapian can throw,
4126 * Removed wrappers for unused error classes which have been pruned from C++.
4128 * Make finalize() methods of Database and WritableDatabase public so they can
4129 be called from by the user.
4131 * Document Document.add_term_nopos() as deprecated.
4135 * Make sure that PHP bindings build a module which exports get_module() so PHP
4138 * Configure now checks that phpize can actually be run, rather than just that
4139 it's executable (test -x isn't portable anyhow).
4141 * Added basic documentation and examples to PHP4 bindings.
4143 * Rename overloaded methods and constructors.
4145 * Add simple access to the prefixes map in QueryParser.
4147 * Correct simpleindex ports to never generate empty termnames.
4151 * configure: Use $PYTHON instead of python when running python to determine
4152 library and include paths and version number.
4154 * Actually ship python examples and documentation.
4156 Xapian-bindings 0.8.0 (2004-04-20):
4158 * README: Started collecting information on supporting Xapian from even
4161 * Added configure tests to enable bindings only where the necessary tools
4162 are installed and have a supported version. ./configure --without-LANGUAGE
4163 allows particular languages to be forcibly disabled.
4165 * Added Xapian::Document::add_term() - the new name for add_term_nopos().
4167 * A couple of Xapian::Query constructors weren't being wrapped - fixed.
4169 * Added Eric B. Ridge's JNI bindings for Java. The JNI bindings themselves
4170 have been well tested, but integration with the xapian-bindings configure
4171 system hasn't been tested at all - please alert us to any problems.
4173 * Xapian can now be used from TCL.
4175 * Python: MSet now provides a Python iterator.
4177 * Python: OMMSET_* and OMESET_* renamed to MSET_* and ESET_*.
4179 * Python: enable directors for MatchDecider, to allow subclassing in Python.
4181 * Python: Added basic documentation, and some examples.