[Weekly Report] Week 8 : Allow Tracker to index online resources

[Adrien Bustany <madcat mymadcat com>]

Hello World !
This week I had to rethink the authentication API, to take into account 
authentication schemes different from flickr or facebook. The API is now 
much more flexible and I think it'll be easy to add more ways for web 
services to authenticate (OAuth, etc.). This API change involved a 
rewrite of the small utility used to bind the bridges to the web service 
(this is the initial step before you can pull data, usually you do it 
only once). It's also much more flexible than before.
This API change allowed me to work on the Google bridge, which can now 
authenticate and almost pull pictures (I have a small memory management 
bug in my bindings which causes a segfault). Once I sort that out, other 
google services should be easy to do.
Next week (well, this week), I'd like to iron that out and write some 
doc. Due to the interactive nature of the briges, it's not easy to write 
regression tests, so I'll have to find a way to test things over time 
and ensure I don't break any existing features when I add new ones.
Also, on Thursday I'm moving to Chile, so I'll be offline for a few days...

Cheers !

Adrien