beagle without gnome (WAS Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle 0.2.1)

[D Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

I cant help but share the following improvement in beagle-0.2.1.

From Joe Shaw's blog at http://joeshaw.org/2006/01/30/375
"... And this version is the first which has a truly core/UI split, so that 
the daemon can be shipped entirely separately from the user interface, 
reducing the number of dependencies on the core. This is a big deal for 
distributors, so if you were a little irritated that installing Beagle would 
pull in all of GNOME, you don’t have to worry any longer. Enjoy!..."

The way to do that would be
$ ./configure  --disable-gui ...

Without the UI, all you need is
> * Mono 1.1.10 or better, along with the full Mono stack
> * gtk-sharp 2.3.90 or better
> * GMime 2.1.19
> * Libexif 0.5.7 or better
> * shared-mime-info

However, without the UI, you dont get the super-sleek beagle-search 
(replacement of Best), dont have IMLogViewer to view IM logs (if you cant use 
a GUI to search, probably you dont need this anyway. duh!) and dont have 
beagle-settings to configure beagle (you have to use the command-line 
beagle-config). beagle-search itself should convince you to start using 
gnome :), IMO.

- dBera

On Monday 30 January 2006 14:49, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.2.1.
>
> This version is primarily a bug fix release.  The widespread exposure
> of our new user interface helped us uncover a handfull of bugs which are
> fixed in this release.
>
> This version also includes additional work to reduce our memory
> footprint.
>
>
> OUR MANY URLS
> -------------
>
> To download the 0.2.1 tarball or learn more, visit the Beagle wiki at:
> http://www.beagle-project.org
>
> The latest gossip is available at:
> http://www.planetbeagle.org
>
> Nat Friedman made some cool movies that demonstrate Beagle in action:
> http://nat.org/demos
>
> We still talk about Beagle on the dashboard-hackers mailing list:
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
>
> Vostok, Antarctica boasts a balmy summertime average temperature of
> -32.1C, and has the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth at
> -89.2C:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok%2C_Antarctica
>
>
> WHAT IS BEAGLE?
> ---------------
>
> Beagle is a tool for indexing and searching your data.  Beagle is improving
> rapidly on many fronts, and should work well enough for everyday use.
>
> The Beagle daemon transparently monitors your data and updates the index
> to reflect any changes.  On an inotify-enabled system, these updates happen
> more-or-less in real time.  So for example,
>
> * Files are immediately indexed when they are created, are re-indexed
>   when they are modified, and are dropped from the index upon deletion.
> * E-mails are indexed upon arrival.
> * IM conversations are indexed as you chat, a line at a time.
>
> Beagle also provides Firefox and Epiphany extensions that allow web pages
> to be indexed as the user visits them.
>
> Beagle uses the Lucene indexing system from the prodigious Doug
> Cutting.
>
> Beagle includes a GTK-based graphical tool for searching the index
> that the daemon creates.  This application doesn't query the index
> directly; it passes the search terms to the daemon and the daemon
> sends any matches back.  The user interface then renders the results
> and allows you to perform useful actions on the matching objects.
>
> Indexing your data requires a fair amount of computing power, but the
> Beagle daemon tries to be as unobtrusive as possible.  It contains a
> scheduler that works to prioritize tasks and control CPU usage, based on
> whether or not you are actively using your workstation.
>
>
> DEPENDENCY HECK
> ---------------
>
> Beagle has many dependencies, and thus can be difficult to compile.
> It requires:
> * Mono 1.1.10 or better, along with the full Mono stack
> * gtk-sharp 2.3.90 or better
> * GMime 2.1.19
> * Libexif 0.5.7 or better
> * shared-mime-info
>
> For the best possible Beagle experience, you should also have:
> * Mono 1.1.13
> * Evolution-sharp 0.10.2
> * libgsf 1.12.1 and gsf-sharp 0.6
> * Either wv 1.2.0, or a *patched* wv 1.0.3 --- the patch is available from
>   http://users.avafan.com/~fredrik/beagle/wv-libole2-readonly.patch
> * An inotify 0.24-enabled kernel.  Inotify is in the mainline Linux
>   kernel as of 2.6.13.
>
>
> CHANGES SINCE 0.2.0
> -------------------
>
> Daemon/Infrastructure:
> * Split the UI elements from the non-UI elements.  (D Bera, Joe Shaw)
> * Reenable Sqlite 3 support, but only if you have 3.3.1 or
>   newer.  (Joe)
> * Purge Sqlite databases if the major versions mismatch.  (Joe)
> * Fix an unlikely exception when shutting the daemon down in the
>   middle of its startup process.  (Joe)
> * Don't create a user text cache if we dealing only with static
>   querables.  (Bera)
> * Make the text cache only readable by the user.  (Joe)
> * Remove the non-working non-inotify file system watcher.  (Joe)
> * Add Hangul support to Lucene.  (dittos gmail com, Young-Ho Cha)
> * Use locale-independent lower casing in the Sqlite code; fixes a
>   problem particularly with Turkish.  (Joe)
>
> Backends:
> * Rename the Evolution mail backend from "Mail" to
>   "EvolutionMail". (Joe)
> * Move the Evolution mail backend into an external assembly with the
>   Evolution Data Server backend.  (Joe)
> * Filter out certain files when walking Evolution IMAP directories,
>   reducing time and memory usage.  (Joe)
> * Decode the subject on Evolution IMAP messages.  (Joe)
> * Store flags as mutable properties in the Evolution mail index,
>   speeding up reindexing mail.  (Joe)
> * Fix the Konqueror backend to correctly report current indexing
>   status.  (Bera)
>
> Filters:
> * Add a filter for TIFF files.  (Larry Ewing)
>
> UI/Tools:
> * Fix sorting to work during live queries.  (Lukas Lipka)
> * Fix a crash when old queries had updated after the user had started
>   a new one.  (Lukas, Joe)
> * Fix the image tile to still work even if an image file lacks an
>   extension.  (Lukas)
> * Don't display a "..." snippet while loading IM snippets.  (Lukas)
> * Fix a bug where markup was being displayed in some tile snippets
>   instead of correctly bolding the text.  (Lukas)
> * Fix a bug where we weren't caching the snippet for IM tiles. (Lukas)
> * Fix the background color on the viewport in the main pane.  (Dan Winship)
> * Specify full library names in the tray icon so we don't depend on
>   devel packages.  (Dan)
> * Many 64 bit fixes to the notification area icon.  (Dan)
> * Remove a bunch of unused images from the image assembly.  (Joe)
> * Remove the accidentally used GPL spinner code from Epiphany and
>   replace it with a managed, MIT-licensed replacement.  (Dan)
> * Fix the beagle-search desktop file to have the right icon.  (Joe)
> * Install the icon into the system pixmaps directory.  (Joe)
> * Update the IM log viewer to use the new icon.  (Joe)
> * Add some warning text to beagle-build-index about the target
>   path.  (Joe)
>
> Translations:
> * Added Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) translation.  (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
> * Updated Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation.  (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
> * Updated German translation.  (Hendrik Brandt)
> * Updated Dutch translation.  (Tino Meinen)
> * Updated Finnish translation.  (Ilkka Tuohela)
> * Updated Catalan translation.  (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
> * Updated Danish translation.  (Lasse Bang Mikkelsen)
> * Updated Canadian English translation.  (Adam Weinberger)
> * Updated Hungarian translation.  (Gabor Kelemen)
> * Updated Greek translation.  (Nikos Charonitakis)
>
> Everything Else:
> * Add shared-mime-info as a required dependency.  (Joe)
>
>
> KNOWN ISSUES
> ------------
>
> Yes, we know we use too much memory.  We are working on it.
>
> Extreme spikes in memory usage have been observed in some cases.
> Certain extremely large documents can temporarily degrade your
> system's performance while they are being indexed.  In most of these
> cases, the memory is reclaimed by the system relatively quickly after
> the document is indexed.
>
> The file system is now much more robust than ever before.  However, there
> are still race conditions that can occur with certain combinations of
> file system operations.  In some cases it might be necessary to stop and
> restart the daemon.
>
> The CHM filter has been disabled because the HTML filter it is based
> upon has changed, and it has not been updated.
>
> The web services architecture has been deprecated and is no longer
> built.  It has some design issues and is currently unmaintained.
>
> At this point in development, we cannot commit to stable APIs or file
> formats. You will almost certainly need to delete your indexes and start
> again at some point in the future.
>
>
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