Re: [Tracker] more issues with indexer-split

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:23 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > Could we also reduce memory usage by not statically linking to the
> > > private libs libtracker-common and libtracker-db?
> > Those libraries should not be available for public use. Before doing so,
> > each API would have to be:
> >
> > a) Documented
> > b) Checked it needs to be public
> > c) Versioned
> > d) ...
> >
> > This is a lot of work and I don't think it is worth it.
> > I haven't looked at the footprints myself though.
>
>
> why we would do all that?
>
> we would not be exporting the headers for those libs so no other apps
> outside of tracker source tree will be able to use it effectively
>
> surely there are some examples of private libs that are not statically
> linked?

I mis-understood clearly. I thought you meant make it public for public
use. I think making them .so libs but privately used is a good idea.

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Regards,
Martyn