Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Mathias Hasselmann <mathias hasselmann gmx de>]

Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 15:12 -0400 schrieb Jamie McCracken:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:57 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > 5) Allow for possibility of uniform services for things like
> contacts
> > > instead of them being redefined for all clients (evolution, pidgin, web
> > > services) - this would require a separate contacts service but a
> > > federated db like tracker is an essential component for this
> > 
> > Hmm? Isn't that what eds does?
> 
> AFAIK it does not extend into web services realm but eds could use
> tracker as backend and get the web ones

EDS only is a dumb data store. Using it to aggregate data from different
sources is quite a pain. Today we guys implementing Maemo5's address
book deeply regret having tried that on top of EDS.

EDS just is not made for aggregating data. In opposition to that a meta
data store like Tracker would provide quite natural access to features
like aggregating contacts and presence information.

Ciao,
Mathias
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