Re: [Tracker] Tracker 0.7 ETA?

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:02 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 07/04/2008 alle 10.11 -0400, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
> > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:29 +0300, Ivan Frade wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > 0.7 will pretty much be refactoring + xesam
> >
> > also possible is your patches for service file and other minor
> > improvements
> >
> > I will have all outstanding patches reviewed today
> >
> >
> > The end of the 0.7.x series will include everything needed for devs to
> > integrate firmly
>
>
> Jamie, could we also try to split tracker sources? I mean something like
> Gstreamer with
>       * a "tracker-core" module depending only on glib, dbus and sqlite
>       * a "tracker-extractors" module providing extractors and depending
>         on poppler, gstreamer, libgsf, exempi and so on
>       * a "tracker-search-tool" module providing the GUI search tool and
>         libtracker-gtk
>
> This could help vendors and developers to include tracker support in
> their applications (no needs to depend on external deps for extractors,
> stable and LTS API in tracker-core), but also users (frequent releases
> providing new extractors).

the new architecture will effectively do that

> However, I think could be a good idea move to GIO (i.e. glib >= 2.16.0)
> 'cause there are some really useful stuff for tracker like file
> monitoring and MIME recognizing/handling: now that those features are
> directly available in glib, we can drop the xdgmime copy, the custom
> code to recognize file types and the custom code to monitor for file
> system changes[1].

we will move towards this at some point - I think its too early atm (not
all distros suppor tit yet) and dunno when nokia would ship that

we also want to move sqlite 3.5 which is fully thread safe and allows a
single db connection to be shared amongst threads


jamie