Re: Is beagle completely dead now?

[Joe Shaw <joe joeshaw org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Joel Mandell <joelmandell gmail com> wrote:
> Would love to eventually fix the Evolution filter in Util/Evolution.cs. I
> can send patches to dbera right?

You can send patches to the list.  I think I wrote the Evolution stuff
back in the day, so I might be able to remember some of the details.
:)

At this point there's nobody really maintaining it, and the current
Evo stuff is old and broken so as long as you've tested it and feel
good about the code, go ahead and push it AFAIAC.

Thanks,
Joe

>
> peace!
> -joel m aka dikatlon
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lukas Lipka <lukaslipka gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't mean to sound nostalgic, but back then Beagle was one of the
>> best and fun projects to hack on!
>>
>> L.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Joe Shaw <joe joeshaw org> wrote:
>> > Hi Adam,
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
>> > <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
>> >>> A major reason why I gave up on Beagle and
>> >>> the whole Linux desktop itself was due to this attitude.  I guess the
>> >>> developers of those apps are more thick skinned or resilient than I
>> >>> was?  I don't know.
>> >>
>> >> Time is also probably a factor, Beagle was AFAIK really the first
>> >> desktop Mono application of any note.  It was also ahead of its time as
>> >> a concept [I recall no shortage of long rambling posts about how it was
>> >> useless anyway].
>> >
>> > Indeed.  Writing a Mono application at the time was a... challenge.
>> > Beagle surely had its own set of performance problems, and the tools
>> > to profile and debug them were largely non-existent.  We even wrote a
>> > few of them (heap-buddy, which has only recently been superseded by a
>> > new built-in profiler).  I would have killed for a working debugger.
>> > :)
>> >
>> > When Beagle was started, the concept was actually pretty clear to us.
>> > We weren't looking to create a Spotlight for Linux (indeed, Beagle was
>> > first publicly demoed on the day Apple announced Spotlight) -- it was
>> > really designed as a means to an end: Dashboard needed an index to
>> > make intelligent queries against and get contextual clues.  Beagle
>> > really grew out of that need, and became a user-centric tool.
>> >
>> > Joe
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