Re: Module Proposal: Rygel

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:28 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:25 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:

I tried to sent this several times, but it looks like GMANE is not
working for me today ...

And Evolution has its "reply to all" feature all wrong too, apparently.

[CUT]
 
> > What I mean is, what difference does it make if the data is readonly or 
> > readwrite?
> 
> I'm mentioning read-only because I believe it would be possible to
> implement with your current architecture. If you want read/write access,
> it would probably involve file locking, and all sort of nastiness that I
> understand might be problematic.
> 
> Reading the data through a native API instead of through D-Bus would
> mean being able to shift very large amounts of data without the
> marshalling/demarshalling (say, loading 100k audio tracks' metadata
> would probably take a large amount of time over D-Bus, where it would be
> of negligeable duration through a more direct API).

This isn't as easy at it sounds, I posted a comment on the bug you
reported explaining what the difficulty is.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613255#c1


> >  Surely applications would want ONE method not two for 
> > communicating with Tracker's. Or did I misunderstand somehow?
> 
> This would all be hidden behind the tracker libraries for most
> developers, so it shouldn't matter. You'd get the same result, just much
> faster.

Cheers,

Philip

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