Re: [Tracker] just discovered gls3

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:50 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
> > Well, won't GLS3 obsolete Tracker once it's finished and stable  
> > (which will take a much longer time than it will take Tracker)?  Is  
> > it an entirely new filesystem, or a filesystem that lives on top of  
> > an existing one?
>
> its not a physical file system and does not really do anything that 
> tracker does not
>
> It uses FUSE to expose a user space filesystem in the same way that 
> tracker uses trackerdFS and beagle uses BeagleFS
>
> Its similiar to tracker but written in C++ and so uses different 
> technologies.
>
> I expect it to be much heavier than tracker though as its using Postgres 
> and not Sqlite like tracker.
>
> Also no Dbus and no C bindings so its not really feaible for Gnome or 
> XFCE at the moment. I dont think there is any integration with any gnome 
> stuff (Deskbar or Nautilus)
>
> Also seems to lack RDF ability for the metadata but otherwise is pretty 
> close to tracker in both scope and target audience (IE its not just a 
> dedicated indexer like Beagle or Strigii and like tracker closely 
> couples DB and Indexer).

it seems to me that the greatest place for these softwares to share code
is in the various ways these services are exposed. i'm thinking gui:
search, indexing, preferences, etc. what do you all think are areas
where these projects can work together (which is vital).

jon

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