Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:16 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 13:05 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > 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 ;)
> > 
> 
> Well. Currently there are two projects which, at least for the first
> sight, are similar - Tracker and Beagle. So the first question is why
> should Gnome include Tracker and not Beagle?
> 
I might be wrong and things might have changed, but isn't beagle
unmaintained?