Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Jerry Tan <Jerry Tan Sun COM>]

Martyn Russell :
> 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 0.6.x is already in OpenSolaris.

but porting 0.7.x to solaris is not finished yet.
because it changes so dramatically.

> > > 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.