Re: [Tracker] New module proposal: tracker



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El 18/08/09 12:29, Maciej Piechotka escribió:
> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:24 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:16 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 13:05 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> So we recently polled the tracker mailing list to make sure
>>>> the core developers and others interested had an opinion on
>>>> GNOME module inclusion for Tracker. You can see the thread
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2009-August/msg00007.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

The response was positive. So I would like to propose Tracker as a new
>>>> GNOME module.
>>>>
>>>> Right now Tracker 0.7 is currently in development and we are
>>>> hoping to get the 0.7. unstable release out the door in the
>>>> coming month or so.
>>>>
>>>> Right now we are considering making the miners (the file
>>>> system crawling at this point) optional so it acts purely as
>>>> a store if needed by ISVs. This is not yet done in master but
>>>> can be if that's a GNOME requirement.
>>>>
>>>> Dependencies include:
>>>>
>>>> libxml >= 0.6 libpng >= 1.2 libuuid zlib dbus >= 0.60 sqlite3
>>>> >= 3.5 (built with --enable-load-extension) hal >= 0.5 vala
>>>> >= 0.7.3 pango >= 1.0.0
>>>>
>>>> Beyond that, the rest of the requirements affect your
>>>> extraction ability. For example, if poppler-glib is on the
>>>> platform, you can then extract PDF files. This also depends
>>>> on if streamanalyser is used or not (which does all
>>>> extraction for us and negates the needs for specific
>>>> libraries in Tracker).
>>>>
>>>> Dependencies about to be dropped but still needed:
>>>>
>>>> gmime lex yacc libraptor
>>>>
>>>> The git repository is here:
>>>>
>>>> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/
>>>>
>>>> We import the following libraries:
>>>>
>>>> libinotify rasqal
>>>>
>>>> Licensing wise, those libinotify and rasqal both share the
>>>> LGPL, as does libtracker. The rest is GPLv2 or later.
>>>>
>>>> /discuss ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well. Currently there are two projects which, at least for the
>>> first sight, are similar - Tracker and Beagle. So the first
>>> question is why should Gnome include Tracker and not Beagle?
>>>
>> I might be wrong and things might have changed, but isn't beagle
>> unmaintained?
>>
>>
>
> Last time I checked it had commit 36 h ago although it has no big
> changes in git. Anyway it seems much more stable for me (i.e. does
> not block my desktop).
>
> Regards

Hi Maciej
if I got it right, tracker would mainly be integrated in GNOME as a
central RDF store, more than a desktop indexer... I don't know if
Beagle provides this functionnality.

Cheers

Adrien

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