yes, the API (both C and Perl) is for libswish-e, which is just for 
searching.

There is no plan to provide an API for indexing. We've talked about this 
on the list before, and amongst the developers, and haven't yet heard a 
compelling argument to have an indexing API. As Bill said it once, the 
swish-e binary \is\ the API.

John Paige wrote on 05/24/2005 10:29 AM:
> Hi,
>    I see that C-API interface of Swish-e only supports seraching. It
> does not support the C-API to index any file.Is it true? If so, is
> there any near term plan to have one?
> 
> Thanks,
> John

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