Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 17:50 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Xan Lopez wrote:
> > It can be used directly by applications that feed it data through an
> > API. Zeitgeist is an example, another could be bookmarks/history
> > storage in Epiphany.
> 
> Do you mean storing actual bookmarks into the database ?
> 
> I would be quite reluctant in mixing actual data with rebuildable caches 
> (because when caches get in the way people are eager to just rm them).
> An indexer mostly produces data that you can build again -- by running 
> the indexer once more.
> 
> On which field does tracker-store play ?
> _______________________________________________

This is a non-issue due to the fact that tracker-store backs up all
user/app metadata in turtle format (indexed data is not backed up at all
obviously)

if you ever deleted the tracker db and rebuilt it, all your user/app
metadata would automatically be restored