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

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

One immediate big remark with the patches is that you are silently
trying to lower the version requirements for sqlite.

Don't

I guess the renaming of these files is a team decision that I can't make
on my own, so I can't push these patches right now.

We'll discuss this, though.

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:47 +0100, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote:
> 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. Moreover, I'd
> suggest to do the same for 0.6.x branch, so all files end in "-0.6".
> Then, one can use alternatives approach, so for instance "tracker-stats"
> can point either to tracker-stats-0.7 or tracker-stats-0.6. In some
> sense, this is the approach followed by gcc, where the executable "gcc"
> is actually a link to "gcc-$VERSION".
>
> My main concerns is how to manage these patches, as they don't fit in
> any branch. Maybe it would be a good idea to create a new branch in
> gitorious called "fremantle-0.7", which would have Tracker 0.7 for
> Fremantle.
>
> BTW, I've been testing it in a real device, and it works fine. You can
> use both "tracker-files -s Music" and "tracker-query-0.7 -u", and they
> return same information. The drawback is that two trackers will be
> running.
>
> Finally, these patches (well, really the first one) should help to fix
> GB#601799.
>
>       J.A.
>
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