Re: [Tracker] Tracker daemon/indexer responsibilities

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Miha Bevk wrote:
> I hate this f****** message!!!!!!!!!!

Hi,

What exactly do you hate about this message?

> --- On Thu, 6/26/08, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> From: Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>
> Subject: Re: [Tracker] Tracker daemon/indexer responsibilities
> To: jamie mccrack gmail com
> Cc: "Tracker-List" <tracker-list gnome org>
> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 4:17 PM

[snip]

> > the desktop/ini file will contain fields for :
> >
> > directories to watch
> > recursive directories to watch
> > ignore directories regex
> > files to index regex
> > files to ignore regex
> > index executable
> > index module name
> > file mime types
> > service name
> >
> > we may also need a user config file for each module/executable which the
> > index content will use
> >
> > enabled
> > mod specific settings
>
> Hmm, as we speak we are writing a GKeyFile type approach (similar to a
> .desktop file) outside of the .desktop file for modules.
>
> From what you have listed there are are you talking about extending the
> desktop file format for Tracker?
>
> Where you have "regex" there, do you mean using the GPatternSpec API
> which we currently do or using a real regex? (Possibly the using GRegex)
>
> My feeling at this point (so we can get on) is to just write the code to
> get this information from another place (we have in mind
> $prefix/share/tracker/modules) and use that for now, then perhaps we can
> move over to .desktop files (with the GKeyFile the move should be faily
> quick given the API won't change we will just point the code at
> different files).

If I have offended you then for that I am sorry, but please don't write
to me privately saying such things without explaining yourself more clearly.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn