Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:44 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:25 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> >   Beagle has had a disclaimer like "yes, we know there are memory
> > problems, we're working on fixing them" in release announcements
> since
> > forever, i.e. over 2 years ago.  If two years is not enough to solve
> > memory problems, it doesn't bode well for its future.
> 
> I don't think is a fair or well-informed statement, and I don't think
> it
> does the discussion any benefit.
> 
> FWIW, I have not yet proposed Beagle for inclusion into GNOME for a
> number of reasons -- including the memory usage -- because I don't
> think
> it's ready to be a supported and stable part of the platform.
> However,
> applications can utilize it (like Nautilus, Yelp, and Deskbar) and
> have
> been for some time.

But because it's not actually part of the desktop or platform,
Yelp can't have a hard dependency.  That means that Yelp's code
is littered with #ifdef madness, which makes it harder to read
the code and harder to test all the code paths.

We suck it up and deal with it because search is important in
a help browser.  But if we had the opportunity to get rid of
the #ifdefs, I'd be all over it.

--
Shaun