Re: Beagle and Gaim Logs

[Daniel Drake <dsd gentoo org>]

Richard Laager wrote:
> 1. Old Logs
>
> Really old versions of Gaim (pre 0.70, I think) stored conversations in
> what we now call "old logs". These files are flat files, which contain
> all the conversations for a given buddy. They are named things like:
> ~/.gaim/logs/rlaager.log (for a buddy with the screenname "rlaager").
>
> Beagle doesn't seem to index these. In the interest of completeness*,
> I'd like to see these files be indexed, and I'm willing to help in
> whatever way I can. I never used C# before, so I would need a little
> guidance if I was to try to create a patch.

We used to index these, but dropped support when we reworked the IM log 
filtering. To my knowledge, we haven't had any comments about this - 
i.e. nobody noticed so far ;)

Beagle isn't very good at indexing log files like this, since they just 
continually grow and grow, and beagle ends up indexing the whole file 
every time a line is added. This is OK for small per-conversation files, 
but is a problem otherwise.

It's not my decision to make, but my opinion is that we shouldn't 
stretch to indexing those old logs unless there is visible demand.

Also on this topic, I wrote some patches a while ago, making IM log 
parsing more efficient:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322669

Someone should probably redo these against the current tree and then 
repeatedly prod Joe for review :)

Daniel