<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">In your README.md, perhaps "This project intends to provide a straightforward and simple <b>procedure </b>to configure FTS plugin for Dovecot, leveraging the efforts by the Xapian.org team." is better??</div><div>Also in the part after cloning from git:</div><div><br></div><div>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-dovecot=/path/to/dovecot [ This /path/to/dovecot is not obvious. Is it the dovecot binary or what??]<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 09:42, Joan Moreau via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>Thank you Stephan.</p>
<p>The version here shall be up and running : <a href="https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian" target="_blank">https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian</a></p>
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<p id="gmail-m_-6837068338778232137reply-intro">On 2019-01-14 00:07, Stephan Bosch wrote:</p>
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<div class="gmail-m_-6837068338778232137pre" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:monospace"><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">Op 13/01/2019 om 21:25 schreef Joan Moreau via dovecot:</span>
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<br>Depends on your system. It mostly a matter of setting a proper --prefix directory for configure, but other paths are configurable as well. I usually check what the official distribution package for Dovecot is doing and use that as a basis.<br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">For Debian I use the following configure command:</span><br><br>./configure --with-ldap=plugin --with-ssl=openssl --with-sql=plugin --with-lua=plugin --with-pgsql --with-mysql --with-sqlite \<br> --with-gssapi=plugin --with-solr --with-ioloop=best --enable-maintainer-mode \<br> --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man \<br> --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-moduledir=/usr/lib/dovecot/modules --disable-rpath --disable-static<br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">Regards,</span><br><br>Stephan<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding:0px 0.4em;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin:0px"><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">On 2019-01-13 21:01, Tuomi, Aki wrote:</span><br><br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding:0px 0.4em;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin:0px">You copied your Makefile.am there. Stephan made you a working version, can you try that?<br><span style="white-space:nowrap">(sorry for dup)</span><br>Aki<br><span style="white-space:nowrap">-------- Original message --------</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">From: Joan Moreau <<a href="mailto:jom@grosjo.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jom@grosjo.net</a>></span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">Date: 13/01/2019 21:39 (GMT+02:00)</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">To: Stephan Bosch <<a href="mailto:stephan@rename-it.nl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">stephan@rename-it.nl</a>></span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">Cc: Aki Tuomi <<a href="mailto:aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">aki.tuomi@open-xchange.com</a>></span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">Subject: Re: [FTS Xapian] Beta release</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">I used the skeleton from Aki : <a href="https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian</a></span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">However, when I try to act as a visitor, I reach teh follwoing error:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"># autoreconf -vi</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: Entering directory `.'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: <a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>: not using Gettext</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: <a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>: tracing</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, '.'.</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://configure.ac:9" target="_blank">configure.ac:9</a>: installing './compile'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://configure.ac:11" target="_blank">configure.ac:11</a>: installing './config.guess'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://configure.ac:11" target="_blank">configure.ac:11</a>: installing './config.sub'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://configure.ac:7" target="_blank">configure.ac:7</a>: installing './install-sh'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://configure.ac:7" target="_blank">configure.ac:7</a>: installing './missing'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'</span><br>/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/<a href="http://depend2.am" target="_blank">depend2.am</a>: error: am__fastdepCXX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL<br>/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/<a href="http://depend2.am" target="_blank">depend2.am</a>: The usual way to define 'am__fastdepCXX' is to add 'AC_PROG_CXX'<br>/usr/share/automake-1.16/am/<a href="http://depend2.am" target="_blank">depend2.am</a>: to '<a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>' and run 'aclocal' and 'autoconf' again<br><span style="white-space:nowrap">src/Makefile.am: error: C++ source seen but 'CXX' is undefined</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">src/Makefile.am: The usual way to define 'CXX' is to add 'AC_PROG_CXX'</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">src/Makefile.am: to '<a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>' and run 'autoconf' again.</span><br>src/Makefile.am:11: warning: variable 'NOPLUGIN_LDFLAGS' is defined but no program or<br>src/Makefile.am:11: library has 'NOPLUGIN' as canonical name (possible typo)<br><span style="white-space:nowrap">autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1</span><br><br><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap">On 2019-01-13 20:24, Stephan Bosch wrote:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Oh, right, a distribution tarball doesn't include some of the</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> necessary files for your repository like autogen.sh and</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> .gitignore. The attached tarball includes all those and is ready</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> for `git init`. The previous tarball was made with `make</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> distcheck` from this one.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Regards,</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Stephan.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Op 13/01/2019 om 20:14 schreef Stephan Bosch:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Hi Joan,</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Op 13/01/2019 om 19:03 schreef Aki Tuomi:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Yes, from compiling point of view it is done.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Unfortunately what is not done is all the other work</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> involved, such as fixing all the inevitable bugs it has</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> and maintaining it. We do not want, at this moment, take</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> up maintaining and developing yet another FTS plugin as</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> we have plenty of things to do already.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I invite you to setup your own repository and provide</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> this plugin from there, being the maintainer of this</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> plugin. We can add a link to your plugin on our FTS page</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> so people can also find it.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> There are other plugins like this, e.g.</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> <a href="https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-plugin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-plugin</a></span><br><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I turned the code you provided into a separate plugin</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> package. The distribution tarball is attached.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Notable changes:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> - Added example copyright headers and COPYING and AUTHORS</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> files. You should modify those to your preference.</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> - Added README and INSTALL files (in markdown using Pandoc).</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Those need to be amended with details.</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> - Amended the plugin code to display a debug message with the</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> plugin name and version upon plugin load.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I advise you to turn this into a git repository and continue from there.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I do not recommend releasing this plugin with the</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> -fpermissive flag and the resulting warning as it is now. But</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I'm assuming this is still a work in progress, so that is OK.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Regards,</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Stephan.</span><br><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> On 13 January 2019 at 19:52 Joan Moreau <<a href="mailto:jom@grosjo.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jom@grosjo.net</a></span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jom@grosjo.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jom@grosjo.net</a>>> wrote:</span><br><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> The only point here of this fts-xapian is to get rid</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> of solr (because it</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> is just a nightmare to setup) and squat (because it is considere</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> obsolete).</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I already sent the changed in <a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a>, <a href="http://makefile.am" target="_blank">makefile.am</a>, etc.. in order</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> to include it in the dovecot, and it compiles properly</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> The only remaining point is to push it in hte git (yes, everything is</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> already done)</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> On 2019-01-13 18:45, Aki Tuomi wrote:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> On 13 January 2019 at 17:05 Joan Moreau via</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dovecot@dovecot.org</a></span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>>> wrote:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Hi</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Please find attached the beta release of FTS</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Xapian, with the objective</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> to replace fts_squat that is being deprecated.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Configuration is exactly the same as for fts_squat:</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> plugin {</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> plugin = fts fts_xapian (...)</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> fts = xapian</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> fts_autoindex = yes</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> fts_enforced = yes</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> fts_xapian = partial=2 full=20</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> This is installed on my production server</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> (>120Gb of mailboxes), and I</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> will observe it during the coming days.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I will definitely appreciate that this is added in the core git of</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> docevot, in order to have a versionning of</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> it, to remove squat and let</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> basic users able to avoid Solr alternative as much as possible.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Thanks</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> JM</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Hi!</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> I still recommend you setup a, say, github</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> repository for your plugin. We are not able to</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> currently include your work in dovecot core as it</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> is more work than just pushing the code into the</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> repo. Maybe it can be included in the future.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> If you want, I can help you in setting up the</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> required configuration scripts and such to make</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> it possible to compile it as plugin.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Then anyone can download it and install it for</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> their dovecot, even if dovecot itself has been</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> installed from packages, and also makes it</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> possible for package maintainers to consider</span><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> including it in distributions.</span><br><br><span style="white-space:nowrap"> Aki</span><br><br></blockquote>
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