Re: [Tracker] Is tracker development dead?

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2007/6/30, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 22:51 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:

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>
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>         the google one is not open source (so will not be shipped by
>         open source
>         distros), lacks desktop integration and has no
>         tagging/extensible
>         metadata so I dont think its a stright swap for tracker yet.
>         (it has no
>         Evo support either nor XESAM support)
>
> I shall be punking Google to implement xesam. I hope you don't mind
> competition :-) Although I doubt that they will engage, they might go
> as far as to expose enough API for someone to create a wrapper.
>

I dont consider them as significant competition, yet!

if they are anything more than a dedicated indexer (albeit a really slow
indexer by the looks of it) then perhaps but I bet they will take one
look at the xesam metadata onto and shriek!

At best they might implement the API although that wont suffice for more
sophisticated stuff of course.

I they just implement the api it will be a trivial matter to map the Google Desktop ontology to the xesam one (or not trivial, but doable). But I still doubt that we will get even that.

Cheers,
Mikkel