New module proposal: tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

Hi all,

So we recently polled the tracker mailing list to make sure the core 
developers and others interested had an opinion on GNOME module 
inclusion for Tracker. You can see the thread here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2009-August/msg00007.html

The response was positive. So I would like to propose Tracker as a new 
GNOME module.

Right now Tracker 0.7 is currently in development and we are hoping to 
get the 0.7. unstable release out the door in the coming month or so.

Right now we are considering making the miners (the file system crawling 
at this point) optional so it acts purely as a store if needed by ISVs. 
This is not yet done in master but can be if that's a GNOME requirement.

Dependencies include:

  libxml >= 0.6
  libpng >= 1.2
  libuuid
  zlib
  dbus >= 0.60
  sqlite3 >= 3.5 (built with --enable-load-extension)
  hal >= 0.5
  vala >= 0.7.3
  pango >= 1.0.0

Beyond that, the rest of the requirements affect your extraction 
ability. For example, if poppler-glib is on the platform, you can then 
extract PDF files. This also depends on if streamanalyser is used or not 
(which does all extraction for us and negates the needs for specific 
libraries in Tracker).

Dependencies about to be dropped but still needed:

  gmime
  lex
  yacc
  libraptor

The git repository is here:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/

We import the following libraries:

  libinotify
  rasqal

Licensing wise, those libinotify and rasqal both share the LGPL, as does 
libtracker. The rest is GPLv2 or later.

/discuss ;)

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Regards,
Martyn