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[sup-talk] xapian-full and ncursesw gems



I've pushed two useful gems to gemcutter.

xapian-full: This is based on the existing xapian gem, but compiles
xapian-core as well as the bindings so it isn't dependent on the version
of the system xapian. It's also a newer development version that
includes the Chert backend.

ncursesw: This is a version of the ncurses gem modified to link against
the ncursesw library so you get wide character support. It also includes
the ruby 1.9.1 compile fixes.

When we switch the default index to Xapian, for ease of installation I
think we should add xapian-full as a gem dependency even though it may
be redundant with a system xapian install. The only thing I worry about
here is users lacking the full toolchain required to build Xapian.

One potential problem with the ncursesw gem is that I've kept
source compatibility with the old ncurses gem by not renaming the
files/module. This means they interact badly if both are installed. We
could change the Sup source to use new ncursesw names, but that's
annoying and breaks people doing "git pull". Thoughts?
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