[pylucene-dev] extend Similarity -- but only want to overide one func: lengthNorm()

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, John Kleven wrote:

> You are amazing.  I will test this out as soon as i figure out how to
> compile PyLucene (been putting that off for far too long) so i will
> hopefully get a chance to give it a go today -

If you are on Mac OS X or Linux and have a sane gcj, it should be no problem.
Note that to build from svn sources, you need a sane JDK 1.4.x such as 
Apple's, Sun's or Blackdown's on Linux).

What is a sane gcj ?
   - gcj 3.4.x everywhere but Intel OS X where a heavily patched gcj
     4.0.2 is required (get it from [1] or build it with [2])
   - a recent gcj 4.2.0 snapshot on Linux

On Windows, you need a cygwin environment and a PyLucene source tarball with 
the Lucene .jar files as I usually upload. Let me know if you need that now 
(I'm offline all of next week) and a mingw gcj 3.4.x compiler which is tricky 
to build to say the least; you may get it from [3] instead.

> PS.  Do you take paypal donations?

I personally don't, but OSAF sure does, see [4]. Thanks !

Andi..

[1] http://builds.osafoundation.org/compilers/osx/i386/gcc-4.0.2.tar.bz2-20061104
[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-05/msg00151.html
[3] http://builds.osafoundation.org/compilers/windows/mingw-5.0-3.4.6.tar.bz2
[4] http://www.osafoundation.org/donations.htm