[pylucene-dev] Announcing PyLucene 2.0

[tsuraan at tsuraan.net]

> I am pleased to announce the release of PyLucene 2.0 following the 
> release of Java Lucene 2.0 yesterday.
>
> This release is built from the Java Lucene 2.0.0 tag [1].

Great to hear that!

> Binaries for Mac OS X (both PPC and Intel), Linux (Gentoo) and Windows 
> are available. See http://pylucene.osafoundation.org for more details.
>
> Apart from the changes between Java Lucene 1.9.1 and Java Lucene 2.0 
> [2] which are reflected in PyLucene 2.0, the major new feature in 
> PyLucene 2.0 is that it no longer uses SWIG. The API wrappers are now 
> handcoded in C++.

When you started writing your wrappers, did you consider the 
Boost.Python system?  I'm considering it for some stuff of my own, but 
haven't looked at it much.  Is there a glaring technical shortcoming 
that makes it unsuitable for PyLucene (or other large projects), or did 
you just not want to introduce excessive dependencies on PyLucene?