A technical assessment of porting "Sugar" to Windows.

[Olly Betts]

C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> writes:
> Our current implementation is based on Xapian,
> which "compiles" on Windows (but perhaps not much more):
> http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2006-March/000311.html

Um, "2006-March" - that message is over two years old!  And even back then
Xapian worked nicely when built with cygwin or mingw.

Back in the present day, MSVC support has been pretty solid for some time.
You can even download prebuilt binaries of the core library and python
bindings:

http://www.raptorized.com/xapian-python-win32/

Cheers,
    Olly