guile-xapian provides Guile bindings for Xapian, a search engine library used in popular applications such as the notmuch email system. Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It has built-in support for several families of weighting models and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.

Once these bindings are sufficiently mature, they may be merged with xapian-bindings. This will involve creating more complete Scheme-friendly wrapping of the Xapian library, writing test cases and documentation. When we are done, the user should not ever have to call the low level functions in (xapian wrap) and should be able to do almost everything using only the higher level Scheme-friendly functions in (xapian xapian).

There is no proper documentation yet. See the examples in the source tree. Also see Getting Started with Xapian which describes the Python bindings.

*Warning:* guile-xapian is in a very early stage of development and the high level API in (xapian xapian) is not stable. It may change at any time.

guix shell -Df guix.scm

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make

./pre-inst-env guile examples/index.scm examples/100-objects.sexp /tmp/db

./pre-inst-env guile examples/search.scm /tmp/db watch
./pre-inst-env guile examples/search.scm /tmp/db Dent watch
./pre-inst-env guile examples/search.scm /tmp/db title:sunwatch
./pre-inst-env guile examples/search.scm /tmp/db description:\"leather case\" AND title:sundial