[Tracker] Tracker testing environment

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

Hi everyone

Is there a recommended method for doing Tracker development and
testing it on a desktop where you also have a 'production' Tracker
installation? I wrote a quick script this weekend that gives you a
shell with a test environment where you can play with a build of
Tracker installed in /opt (find it here:
http://afuera.me.uk/junk/tracker-sandbox ), similar to how the
functional tests work. I'm interested if all Tracker developers do
something like this, or use a separate user account, or jhbuild, or a
make install directly into /usr and hope for the best.

https://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Debugging doesn't have
too much useful info, I was thinking of adding whatever comes out of
this discussion up there and maybe into a HACKING / README in the git
tree as well. I worry that if it's not trivial for me to work out the
best way to test out changes without messing up my real tracker-store,
it could be quite a big barrier to new contributors who'll find
themselves in a sort of "make, make install, what now??" situation.

Thanks
Sam