Re: external dependency review for 2.91

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 01/10/10 03:44, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I looked over the external dependencies for 2.91 [1]. I've bumped
> the recommended versions to current versions in many places. There are
> some places where we need to bump mnimal versions:

Yes, tracker is definitely one of those. Actually we've had a few 
comments about this in the past. I will find some time to update it 
soon. As per our discussion on IRC, I plan to make the version 0.9.x 
with a view to bumping it to 0.10 in the next month or so.

We are on the precipice of the 0.10 stable releases so there shouldn't 
be much difference there anyway.

Additionally, I need to resolve the configure switches we use and what 
is available in jhbuild. Ideally, we want the following enabled:

 - evolution plugin
 - totem plugin
 - nautilus plugin

One thing we did do recently is disable glib parsing because it was 
quite slow and not as comparable as libicu and libunistring. At the 
moment you have to specifically enable glib support if you don't have 
the alternatives. What are the thoughts here on this? For those 
interested in why see:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2010-May/msg00006.html

and

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2010-August/msg00031.html

For those not interested in reading the threads, it mostly comes down to 
performance. Should we force glib here? I would say it probably makes 
sense to avoid people requiring even more dependencies.

> [1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/ExternalDependencies

Seems the minimum version is 0.7.6, I would make that the latest stable 
version. 0.7.6 is quite old now. If no one objects, I will do all this soon.

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Regards,
Martyn