Re: Is beagle completely dead now?

[Joe Shaw <joe joeshaw org>]

Haha, that one was not me. :)

Joe

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Joel Mandell <joelmandell gmail com> wrote:
> Allright, thanks for the pointer!
>
> I really like this codesnippet in Evolution.cs:
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>  "
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> 			foreach (string shit in crap)
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> 				folder_path = folder_path.Replace (shit, "");
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>
> "
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> :=)
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> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Joe Shaw <joe joeshaw org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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