Re: anybody working/supporting beagle?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 16:13 -0800, Amish Shah wrote:
> If I have questions about how to do things, above and beyond the
> pretty good documentation, am I likely to get answers on this forum?
> How responsive has Novell been about bug fixes? 
> Or am I better of with tracker which seems like its actively
> supported, even though probably a bit less mature than beagle? 

It seems to me that the future is Tracker [which is sad, the world
doesn't need any more unmanaged code. Ick!]  Most significantly Tracker
will almost certainly be integrated with the GNOME Activity Journal
<http://live.gnome.org/action/show/GnomeActivityJournal> which means, at
some point, it will be included in GNOME [displacing Beagle?]

BTW, I love Beagle - it is a massive improvement over 'managing files'.
But, at least for me, it has stopped working.  Since I last updated Mono
it just churns out a lot of -
---
20100122 06:15:13.6246 10662 Beagle ERROR EX:   at
System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags
invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters,
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0 
20100122 06:15:13.6246 10662 Beagle ERROR EX:   at
System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr,
System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters,
System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0 
20100122 06:15:13.6246 10662 Beagle ERROR EX:   at
System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[] parameters)
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
20100122 06:15:13.6246 10662 Beagle ERROR EX:   at
System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
[0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
20100122 06:15:13.6246 10662 Beagle ERROR EX:   at
System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000] in
<filename unknown>:0 
20100122 06:15:13.6246 10662 Beagle ERROR EX:   at
Beagle.Daemon.QueryDriver.ScanAssemblyForQueryables
(System.Reflection.Assembly assembly) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0