Re: [Tracker] libraptor as mandatory dependency

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:54 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 09/12/08 13:43, Ivan Frade wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   We (mainly philip and me) have been working in two new functionalities
> > for tracker:
> >
> > 1) Save the metadata of the memory cards in the memory card itself to
> > share between computers.
> > 2) Backup and restore the metadata set by the user between reindexes.
> >
> >   Both features requires libraptor to work (it is a parser/serializer for
> > turtle and other rdf formats). At the moment it is an optional
> > dependency but:
> >
> > 1) We have a lot of code between ugly #ifdefs
> > 2) The functionality is important and make no sense to do it optional
> >
> >   So i would like to propose libraptor as a mandatory dependency. Any
> > problem with that?
>
> +1 from me as long as it is available at your nearest vendor repository. 
> Which it is here for Ubuntu Intrepid.

should be ok with me although whether the turtle metadata stuff should
be optional depends on performance and space efficiencies of it (sorry
have not had time to investigate it yet)

> I actually think we should do the same for HAL. We heavily need that for 
> a lot of the state based operations.

I dont think we can depoend on Hal as it might not be available for
non-linux users

jamie