David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> This at least allows distinguishing between out of memory and Xapian
> exceptions. Adding finer grained status codes would allow different
> Xapian exceptions to be preserved.
>
> Adding wrappers allows people to transition gradually to the new API,
> at the cost of bloating the library API a bit.

Merged to master. Please send any complaints about the name ASAP, rather
than after people start using it.

d