Re: [Tracker] Advantages of upgrading tracker

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

Well you have to see 0.6 and >0.6 as two different products altogether: 
while the final aim is still the same, the implementation and scope of 
possibilities of tracker 0.7+ are radically different. There was a 
compatibility library, but I don't know if it's still alive. Are you 
trying to achieve something specific by upgrading tracker on Fremantle?

Cheers

Adrien

Le 2013-01-09 19:11, Marcin Mielniczuk a ÃcritÂ:
> 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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