2007/2/15, Joe Shaw <<a href="mailto:joeshaw@novell.com">joeshaw@novell.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, Jos van den Oever wrote: > Shouldnt we start sharing parts of the code required to implement > wasabi? I'm mainly thinking about a struct in c representing a parsed > wasabi query and functions to de- and serialize these from either the > xml or the user language. > > This should be no more than a couple of files that we can put in an > xsd svn. Requirements to make it palletable for most: few deps and > written in c. For C++ fans we can add a small wrapper. > > What do you think? Definitely.  For the spec to be useful (particularly the query language part) we need either a reference implementation or a conformance test (preferably both).</blockquote> <div> Agreed. I have been thinking about doing something in Python, but held back a little to anticipate where a hand was needed (fx. glib bindings). However several people have already showed interest in glib bindings so I figure I can do something else (sorry qt guys - you qouldn't like my c++ :-D). What requirements would a reference implementation have? I'm thinking something like 30-50 files with a priori known metadata hardcoded into an "index" and small wasabi-compliant "search engine" that searches this index. To go with the bundle there could be a collection of queries with matching results. Given this it would be trivial to write a Python script that did a conformance test (on a search engine that had indexed the given files - and only them). </div> </div> Cheers, Mikkel