Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 29/10/09 21:51, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 22:25 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > But in previous GNOME release we accepted stuff like PolicyKit or
> > DeviceKit or PulseAudio while not yet officially released or widely
> > adopted. And those stuff was needed to be installed under /usr in order
> > to properly work.
>
> I believe all of these things are (optional) dependencies, not anything
> part of the GNOME desktop proper. Except for maybe PulseAudio. Solaris,
> for example, don't use any of this stuff.

That's not true, we have a few Solaris people sending us patches from 
time to time.

> > Tracker, instead, can be simply tested in a JHbuild sandbox.
> >
> > So this doesn't seem to me a reason to drop its inclusion.
>
> I'm with Zeeshan on this - what's the harm of delaying the inclusion of
> Tracker until it has actually proven itself to be useful for Linux
> Desktop uses? (In my view, Maemo isn't a typical Linux Desktop)

Maemo is a target platform being used by real people just like the 
desktop is so I don't agree with that argument.

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Regards,
Martyn