Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 19/03/10 13:56, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:36 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On 19/03/10 12:59, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> > >
> > > 2 things come to mind:
> > > - Tracker shouldn't need to use D-Bus to access its database read-only:
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255
> >
> > Well, D-Bus provides a single entry point for any requests to the data.
> > If we then provide some direct access using a library, that complicates
> > things further. At this point we are not threaded, however, we are
> > currently looking into the possibility of doing this due to recent events.
> >
> > What is so bad about using D-Bus?
>
> See the original mail. It's pushing data over D-Bus that already went
> through the bus in a different form.
>
> > What is the relevance of read-only?
>
> I don't understand the question, or how it relates to the point I was
> making.

What I mean is, what difference does it make if the data is readonly or 
readwrite? Surely applications would want ONE method not two for 
communicating with Tracker's. Or did I misunderstand somehow?

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Regards,
Martyn