Re: [Tracker] Advantages of upgrading tracker

[Marcin Mielniczuk <marmistrz linux pl>]

Hi Ivan,

Is there no backwards compatibility in tracker?Â

Regards,

--

Marcin

2013/1/9 Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>

Hi Marcin,

ÂI wonder if you can replace it, because the API is completely
different. You would need to modify the original Image viewer and
music player apps.

ÂUsing the new tracker just as an indexer (what Tracker 0.6 was), will
give you the same functionality with faster queries, much better API
(cursors!), easier support for extra formats and probably faster file
system crawling. Also Tracker 0.6 is few years old and nobody has
taken care of that code, while the new Tracker is still under (soft)
development and bugs are handled.

ÂFinally, if you are interested in the new features, Tracker > 0.7 can
store more types of information: contacts, messages (IM, SMS, email),
RSS, documents, music, pictures, videos.... and the information can be
interconnected (you can link a message/video/picture with the contact
who send it, appears in it... ). In Tracker 0.6 the information could
come only from the file system but after 0.7 Items can be created
freely in the database, so there can be processes (we call them
miners) bringing information from different sources (e.g. flickrs) to
Tracker. The original idea behind the new tracker was to enable
mashups... sadly we couldn't go too far with it *sigh*

ÂHope this helps,

Ivan

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Marcin Mielniczuk <marmistrz linux pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to propose upgrading tracker in Maemo Fremantle. There are some
> very skeptical guys out there, so I need a couple of arguments, why we
> should upgrade tracker.
> Fremantle uses 0.6.95-35, Harmattan (one of the options to backport from)
> has 0.10, Ubuntu quantal has 0.14.1.
>
> Which benefits would give the both upgrades? Would Ubuntu's version require
> a lot of adaptation (as Harmattan's quite similar to Fremantle)? Would there
> be any performance benefit?
>
> What I know up to now is the SparQl availability in 0.10.19 (Harmattan's)
> which is missing in the Fremantle version.
>
> Regards.
> --
> Marcin
>

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