Re: [Tracker] Removal of some modules before 0.16.0

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

Le 2013-03-13 21:43, Martyn Russell a écrit :
> On 13/03/13 20:33, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2013/3/13 Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>:
> I would like to remove some of the cruft and unmaintained stuff in the
> tracker code base to make things more lean. I plan on removing the
> following. If I don't hear from people by the 15th. I will get started 
> to
> make it in time for the stable releases (18th).
>
> - tracker-explorer/   (is anyone using this?)
> - tracker-search-bar/ (no useful any more)
> - utils/playlists/    (replicates what we do in tracker-extract 
> AFAICS)
> - utils/lyricks/      (doesn't seem to work any more)
> - utils/webhistory/   (is this useful? maybe if turned into a plugin?)
> - utils/data-generators/deprecated/
>                        (this looks completely unused right now)
> - utils/data-generators/barnum/
>                        (AFAICT, we're not using this at all)
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Are the evolution bits working?
>
> I just fixed thunderbird and firefox.
>
> Sadly evolution changed their APIs recently and last time I worked on
> my branch to get that going, the GOA stuff didn't work. I've not had
> time to revisit it since.
>
> So a resounding no I think unfortunately :/
> Contributions welcome! :)

I would not mind dropping the flickr miner at least, it was maybe a 
nice concept, but until it gets revived by maybe Gnome Photos, it's 
unlikely to be really useful (and I guess it should be migrated to GOA 
etc.). It's in git anyway, so will be available in the history for 
reference, if needed.

Cheers

Adrien