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Just uploaded several modules to CPAN that together implement a full REST API for KinoSearch indexes, using Search::OpenSearch::Server::Plack.

The modules are:

• Search::OpenSearch 0.11
• Search::OpenSearch::Server 0.05
• Search::OpenSearch::Engine::KSx 0.08
• SWISH::Prog::KSx 0.17
• SWSIH::Prog 0.49

One of the three virtues of programming is Laziness. Beware of false laziness. Andy Lester writes on the problem aptly when he describes an interaction with another programmer:

Only funny if you’re a programmer.

A brilliant and humane essay on changing work habits.

Excuse me while I get up and stretch.

I can vouch for the writer’s experience, though for me it has been less about back pain (though I have that too) than eye strain (going on 7 years now). Biggest of all though has been having children and working from home: that is the interruption formula in a nutshell.

SWISH::3 0.08_04 is passing all tests all over the CPAN testers universe, so that is encouraging.

However, some reports (notably on FreeBSD) report false failures because of a Wstat issue.

I’ve posted about it at PerlMonks and hope someone out there has an easy fix.

Update: finally found a fix for this. The problem is that Perl has its own my_setenv() function that interferes with the native setenv() called by libswish3.c. The fix was to set the magic Perl var PL_use_safe_putenv as shown here. This took many hours and googling to track down. Glad to be done with it (I hope!).