0.3.3 : For distributions and Ubuntu users

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

Hey folks,
	Wanted to point out a couple of things.

* We had to bump ndesk-dbus requirement to 0.5.2 - the first version to be 
thread safe. Anything lower could have caused deadlocks. Its nearly a year 
that 0.5.2 was released so most distributions would be fine. Except Ubuntu 
Gutsy shipped with 0.4.0 and they are not providing any update. However, I 
was able to install ndesk-dbus from the Hardy repositories in Gutsy without 
any problem; just that single deb had to be upgraded, no dependencies.

* For distributions, beagle now ships with several crawl-files to creating 
system indexes and updating them nightly. Once created, updating is fast and 
if done regularly should not take more than a couple of minutes. But user 
experience can be improved significantly by making a few observations. We 
cannot set these when we release and is best done at the distribution level.

 - Set the correct paths in the crawl files. We tend to add all possible known 
paths and all possible prefixes.
- I am not sure about enabling the windows index by default. Indexing windows 
partition will definitely take a lot of time and lot of resources and might 
take more than a couple of hours.
- Some users complained that the cron jobs started soon after they finished 
installing the distribution - that will suck big time. It might be a good 
idea to update the system with security updates and other cron jobs but 
definitely not updating the index (not only for beagle, but also updating 
index for man, updatedb)
- Ship with default indexes (I think OpenSUSE already does this). Create a 
system wide index and ship it as a package. Then the users will not need the 
first time crawling and indexing. Subsequent changes will be updates and will 
be fast.
- The first night after installation is going to be rough for users :) As of 
now, three heavy indexes will be built for the first time - applications, 
manpages and documentation (and windows if that is enabled). E.g. building 
manpages on my system took about 30-45 minutes. Documentation takes even 
longer ... these are all text heavy data. If something can be done to make it 
easier, then the users (myself included) will love it. I dont know much about 
cron, but maybe the different indexes could be scheduled with different 
intervals so that no two are on the same day for the first time.

If there is anything we need to do upstream, please email your suggestions. 
Thanks.

- dBera

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Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com
beagle / KDE fan
Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user