Re: [Tracker] Refactored the src/plugins & (new) Evolution support

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:09 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
>
> > Overall, great patch :), makes things quite more generic. A few comments
> > about it:
> >
> > * What about using GTypeModule and GInterfaces for the modules? you
> > could have a single module that implements one interface for the indexer
> > and other interface for trackerd.
>
> I tried this, I found it too complicated and more difficult for higher
> languages to integrate with. For example this way it's relatively easy
> to write a push module in Vala.
>
> There were also a few things that were not possible, or quite difficult
> at least. I had started the refactor to make them similar to how your
> module-sys works. But that was not possible for a couple of reasons.
>
> I decided to just use GModule (it's only about a few methods anyway).

I have to say, I agree with Carlos here. Perhaps Jurg can provide some 
information about if this is really not possible in Vala.

> Pausing, pre-committing and continuing it something I think will
> eventually be necessary to add (for example a AddMany that adds really a
> lot of triples, should pause+pre-commit, import, and then continue the
> indexer.
>
> Kinda like freeze/thaw.

I might be talking about something I don't quite understand here, but no 
one except the daemon should be pausing/continuing the indexer (other 
than itself right now which we decided would change later). The 
tracker-status module in trackerd is responsible for signalling and 
controlling all of this.

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Regards,
Martyn