[FTS Xapian] Beta release

[Joan Moreau]

(or wherever dovecot installed its libraries)

On 2019-01-13 21:25, Joan Moreau via dovecot wrote:

> I tried to combined it, the "autoreconf" errors are solved 
> 
> Now, when I type "make install", the lib is not pushed into dovecot folder, but somewhere in /usr/local/... 
> 
> How to adjust this to have it arriving in the proper folder ?
> 
> On 2019-01-13 21:01, Tuomi, Aki wrote: 
> You copied your Makefile.am there. Stephan made you a working version, can you try that? 
> 
> (sorry for dup) 
> 
> Aki 
> 
> -------- Original message -------- 
> From: Joan Moreau <jom at grosjo.net> 
> Date: 13/01/2019 21:39 (GMT+02:00) 
> To: Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl> 
> Cc: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> 
> Subject: Re: [FTS Xapian] Beta release 
> 
> I used the skeleton from Aki : https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian 
> 
> However, when I try to act as a visitor, I reach teh follwoing error: 
> 
> # autoreconf -vi
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, '.'.
> libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> configure.ac:9: installing './compile'
> configure.ac:11: installing './config.guess'
> configure.ac:11: installing './config.sub'
> configure.ac:7: installing './install-sh'
> configure.ac:7: installing './missing'
> src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
> /usr/share/automake-1.16/am/depend2.am: error: am__fastdepCXX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> /usr/share/automake-1.16/am/depend2.am: The usual way to define 'am__fastdepCXX' is to add 'AC_PROG_CXX'
> /usr/share/automake-1.16/am/depend2.am: to 'configure.ac' and run 'aclocal' and 'autoconf' again
> src/Makefile.am: error: C++ source seen but 'CXX' is undefined
> src/Makefile.am: The usual way to define 'CXX' is to add 'AC_PROG_CXX'
> src/Makefile.am: to 'configure.ac' and run 'autoconf' again.
> src/Makefile.am:11: warning: variable 'NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS' is defined but no program or
> src/Makefile.am:11: library has 'NOPLUGIN' as canonical name (possible typo)
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 
> 
> On 2019-01-13 20:24, Stephan Bosch wrote: 
> Oh, right, a distribution tarball doesn't include some of the necessary files for your repository like autogen.sh and .gitignore. The attached tarball includes all those and is ready for `git init`. The previous tarball was made with `make distcheck` from this one.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan.
> 
> Op 13/01/2019 om 20:14 schreef Stephan Bosch: Hi Joan,
> 
> Op 13/01/2019 om 19:03 schreef Aki Tuomi: Yes, from compiling point of view it is done.
> 
> Unfortunately what is not done is all the other work involved, such as fixing all the inevitable bugs it has and maintaining it. We do not want, at this moment, take up maintaining and developing yet another FTS plugin as we have plenty of things to do already.
> 
> I invite you to setup your own repository and provide this plugin from there, being the maintainer of this plugin. We can add a link to your plugin on our FTS page so people can also find it.
> 
> There are other plugins like this, e.g. https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-plugin 
> I turned the code you provided into a separate plugin package. The distribution tarball is attached.
> 
> Notable changes:
> 
> - Added example copyright headers and COPYING and AUTHORS files. You should modify those to your preference.
> - Added README and INSTALL files (in markdown using Pandoc). Those need to be amended with details.
> - Amended the plugin code to display a debug message with the plugin name and version upon plugin load.
> 
> I advise you to turn this into a git repository and continue from there.
> 
> I do not recommend releasing this plugin with the -fpermissive flag and the resulting warning as it is now. But I'm assuming this is still a work in progress, so that is OK.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephan.
> 
> On 13 January 2019 at 19:52 Joan Moreau <jom at grosjo.net> wrote:
> 
> The only point here of this fts-xapian is to get rid of solr (because it
> is just a nightmare to setup) and squat (because it is considere
> obsolete).
> 
> I already sent the changed in configure.ac, makefile.am, etc.. in order
> to include it in the dovecot, and it compiles properly
> 
> The only remaining point is to push it in hte git (yes, everything is
> already done)
> 
> On 2019-01-13 18:45, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 
> On 13 January 2019 at 17:05 Joan Moreau via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Please find attached the beta release of FTS Xapian, with the objective
> to replace fts_squat that is being deprecated.
> 
> Configuration is exactly the same as for fts_squat:
> 
> plugin {
> 
> plugin = fts fts_xapian (...)
> fts = xapian
> fts_autoindex = yes
> fts_enforced = yes
> fts_xapian = partial=2 full=20
> 
> This is installed on my production server (>120Gb of mailboxes), and I
> will observe it during the coming days.
> 
> I will definitely appreciate that this is added in the core git of
> docevot, in order to have a versionning of it, to remove squat and let
> basic users able to avoid Solr alternative as much as possible.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JM Hi!
> 
> I still recommend you setup a, say, github repository for your plugin. We are not able to currently include your work in dovecot core as it is more work than just pushing the code into the repo. Maybe it can be included in the future.
> 
> If you want, I can help you in setting up the required configuration scripts and such to make it possible to compile it as plugin.
> 
> Then anyone can download it and install it for their dovecot, even if dovecot itself has been installed from packages, and also makes it possible for package maintainers to consider including it in distributions.
> 
> Aki
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