Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Running Tracker 0.7 in Fremantle

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2009/11/20 Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasuarez igalia com>:
> Hi.
>
> I've been working in a patch to be able to run Tracker 0.7 in
> N900/Fremantle.
>
> Attached is the set of patches that make this possible. The good news
> about them is that allow that Tracker 0.7 runs together with default
> tracker (0.6.x). Thus, applications can still use tracker 0.6 and newers
> can use tracker 0.7
>
> Most of the changes consisted of some renames to avoid overwritting
> files from tracker 0.6.
>
> Thus, for instance, we have now tracker-stats-0.7, keeping tracker-stats
> for default tracker-0.6.
>
> I must say that I only renamed those files that are in conflict with
> tracker 0.6. Thus, tracker-control maintains its name.
>
> Nevertheless, I've been talking with Ivan about this issue, and he
> thinks that it would be a good idea to rename all files, so all command
> line tools end in "-0.7". I think it's a good idea.

I don't agree unfortunately.
Honestly, I don't think it makes an awful lot of sense to run two
indexers at the same time and having new binary names at each new
major revision (-0.6, -0.7, ...) also brings it's shares of problems,
like documentation, man pages, wiki, web etc which has to be updated
(and most likely it won't, so we will have incomplete/incorrect
information).

Besides, I just think e.g. tracker-search-0.7 looks ugly.

While it is imho useful, if you can install libraries and headers in
parallel, so e.g. developers can more easily port applications to
newer version, I don't really see the use case for having two indexers
installed at the same time.

Cheers,
Michael


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