Re: [Tracker] New branch for Xesam support in trackerd

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

thanks we will use this as our base for the onto

jamie


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 00:31 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2008/4/24 Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> >  On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:35 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> >  > 2008/4/24 Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> >  > >
> >  > >  On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:51 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > >  > >
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Wow, I am delighted to hear this :-)
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > I wont be able to do much until the somewhere early-may. But expect my
> >  > >  > scrutinizing eye by then :-D
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Remember that xesam-tools[1] has a few tools to test and query Xesam providers.
> >  > >  >
> >  > >
> >  > >  hey mikkel,
> >  > >
> >  > >  is it possible for you to get us the full onto in our desktop ini file
> >  > >  format programatically?
> >  > >
> >  > >  It would be very painful having to do it by hand!
> >  > >
> >  >
> >  > I shall try and get to it tonight. I can put a script for it in
> >  > xesam-tools (the framework to it is already there).
> >  >
> >  > I am a bit busy these days and am going away on holiday sunday, so no
> >  > promises :-)
> >  >
> >
> >  hey no rush - it will be another month or so until xesam support is
> >  finished
> >
> >  putting it in xesam-tools would rock!
>
> Catch! I have not sanity checked the output, so **please consider this
> a first stab!**
>
> The script is called rdfs2tracker an is in the demo/ directory of
> xesam-tools bzr trunk.
>
>
> The current Tracker onto contains a lot of extra metadata that is
> mostly only relevant to the current Tracker client. This needs to be
> integrated somehow. I propose that we keep that data separate from the
> clean xesam onto files and then write a script to merge them on
> install time. That way it will be easier to cope with changes to the
> xesam onto.
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel