REALLY adding search to balsa

[rowe excc ex ac uk]

What is the actual active status of people trying to add search to
balsa?

I ask this because I am working on a search library to make it easy to
add search to any application by handling all the guts of the search
itself and just requiring the programmer to have two functions: one to
return a pointer to the next 'item' to be considered and another to return
a pointer (or a series of pointers) to the text belonging to that
item. The programmer would also have to display the results of course.

Currently I can handle booleans and lists ("any two of.."), I am
adding a multi-field capability (Body, Subject, Sender, etc.) and
regexps will be handled by pcre.

Now if there is a real, preferred, balsa search project going on
there's clearly not much point in me trying to gt this into balsa. But
if it's in the "stalled" state I would rather have a good search quite
soon than a basic one much later.

I would expect to have the library ready by the end of January with
maybe another month to get the GTK front end working properly.

Regards

John