Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-21 Thread Arun Isaac
>> It’s a motivation for resuming [1] as a Guix extension ;-) > > Ah, I hadn't thought of xapian search as a Guix extension. Nice idea! > :-) I'm happy to mentor someone if they are interested in such a project. > [1]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39258

Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-21 Thread Arun Isaac
> It’s a motivation for resuming [1] as a Guix extension ;-) Ah, I hadn't thought of xapian search as a Guix extension. Nice idea! :-)

Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-21 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Arun, On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 15:55, Arun Isaac wrote: > guile-xapian 0.4.0 has been released. Cool! That’s nice. It’s a motivation for resuming [1] as a Guix extension ;-) 1: [bug#39258] Faster guix search using an sqlite cache Arun Isaac Fri, 24 Jan 2020 01:21:57 +0530 id:cu7pnfaar36...

Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-13 Thread Nala Ginrut
Ricardo! Thanks for the explanation. It's clear to me now. Best regards. On Mon, May 13, 2024, 18:47 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Nala Ginrut writes: > > > I'm not familiar with Xapian, is it possible to do similar things as > > VectorDB? > > Xapian cannot directly be used to build a vector databa

Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nala Ginrut writes: > I'm not familiar with Xapian, is it possible to do similar things as > VectorDB? Xapian cannot directly be used to build a vector database. (I use the pg_vector extension to postgresql for that purpose.) Xapian creates a more traditional index for finding matching documen

Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-11 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi, Thanks, Nala! > I'm not familiar with Xapian, is it possible to do similar things as > VectorDB? I am not very familiar with VectorDB. From what I can tell, Xapian and VectorDB seem to have similar application areas, but Xapian takes a lot simpler and more traditional approach. You can fin

Re: guile-xapian 0.4.0 released

2024-05-10 Thread Nala Ginrut
Congrats! I'm not familiar with Xapian, is it possible to do similar things as VectorDB? Best regards. On Fri, May 10, 2024, 23:56 Arun Isaac wrote: > > Hi all, > > guile-xapian 0.4.0 has been released. > > guile-xapian provides Guile bindings for Xapian[1], a search engine > library used in po