Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
- To: Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:47:48 -0500
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 23:21 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> The main reason was I didn't like the way GNOME uses loads of different,
> inefficient and incompatible means of storing information (think
> Berkeley DB for EDS, MBox for emails, the zillions of small performance
> draining XML files used for bookmarks, history, rhythmbox's music
> database and many other things). So, I wanted to bring together all this
> stuff under one centralised database and in doing so increase
> performance, power and memory efficiency of the platform as a whole.
Be very careful with trying to put disparate kinds of data under the
same storage.
Read these articles:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html
And then consider whether you indeed want to put everything under the
same database.
Global indexers: good. We need that.
Global metadata: good. Does anyone but me miss the reliable, fast, and
simple metadata storage that we used in GNOME 1.2?
A database to put everything because databases can store EVERYTHING:
bad.
Federico
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