Re: [Tracker] Tracker daemon/indexer responsibilities

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 16:46 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thinks are all going well on the indexer-split branch, however, it
> occurred to me that daemon has its work duplicated in the indexer. We
> need to resolve where the responsibility lies for the daemon and the
> indexer.
>
>
> The Modules
> ===========
>
> First about the modules. So we have these modules, they all share a
> common API. This API includes functions to:
>
> - Index content
> - Get directories
> - Know if a file or directory should be ignored


actually this is wrong - only index content should be in the module and
only the indexe rneeds to access it

a desktop file should specify what directories and/or regex for files to
be indexed/ignored 

that way only the desktop file is shared

I imagine with xesam in the future some standard will be created for
specifying how to index content and its likely to use desktop files too

jamie