Re: [Tracker] status of 0.6.90?

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/10/7 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 2008/10/6 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > > Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > > > Other points:
> > > > * config file of tracker-applet is ~/.config/trackertracker-applet.cfg
> > > > * duplicated code in src/libtracker-common/tracker-config(uration).[ch]
> > > > * API/ABI break in libtracker-gtk
> > > Are you referring to the missing:
> > >
> > >  tracker_vfs_format_file_size_for_display()
> >
> > Right, I was referring to this one.
> > I just checked 0.6.6 and you are right, this function is not exported
> > in the header file, but the symbol is in the lib.
> > So we would break ABI, but not the API.
>
> I don't see it in the code base at all. So I don't know why it is in the
>  library.

It's in src/libtracker-gtk/tracker-metadata-tile.c in 0.6.6 and not
anymore in current trunk.
Unfortunately *all* the history got lost after the indexer-split
merge. So I can't exactly say, when and why it was removed.

> > Maybe it was just a missing "static" in 0.6.6, dunno if this symbol
> > was ever considered to be exported.
>
> That's a good question.
>
> > To avoid accidental symbol exports in the future, we could use a
> > versioning script, where we list the exported symbols explicitely.
>
> Do you have such a script readily available?

No, but I could write one. It is not rocket science.

You basically create a file like
libtracker-gtk.ver which contains:

{
global:
  tracker_create_simple_keyword_liststore;
  tracker_get_all_keywords;
  ...
local:
  *;
}

And use the following LDFLAGS:
-Wl,--version-script=$(srcdir)/libtracker-gtk.ver

Cheers,
Michael



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