Re: [Tracker] Removal of some modules before 0.16.0

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 15/03/13 10:48, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > Preferably, the photos app would maintain and keep the flickr miner
> > itself ... since we like to be integrated as a project rather than have
> > a seriously big code base with plugins for all projects out there. Is
> > this a possibility?
>
> Sure. Currently Documents carries the Google and SkyDrive miners.  At
> some point Photos and Documents might end up sharing some of these
> miners.  I don't know what would be the best way to do that. Ideas?

Should be quite easy... the directory and configure.ac stuff for that 
miner should lift and shift for the best part into another repository.

In configure.ac, there is a section for the miner specifically:

##################################################################
# Check for tracker-miner-flickr
##################################################################

The pkg-config constraints are:

TRACKER_MINER_FLICKR_REQUIRED="glib-2.0     >= $GLIB_REQUIRED
                               rest-0.7     >= $REST_REQUIRED"

The source itself is Vala and the Makefile.am would likely just need a 
few small updates to switch from linking with:

$(top_builddir)/src/libtracker-miner/libtracker-miner- TRACKER_API_VERSION@.la 
\
$(top_builddir)/src/libtracker-sparql-backend/libtracker-sparql- TRACKER_API_VERSION@.la 
\

to whatever PKGCONFIG tells you, which makes linking much easier.

Hope that answers your question?

> > Also, when is Photos going to be in GNOME? 3.8? 3.10? Like the Calendar
> > and Notes apps which I really can't wait for, they seem to be taking a
> > while :)
>
> Notes is already mentioned as a preview in the 3.8 release notes. I
> got distracted this cycle with other things, but I am hoping to have a
> preview of Photos for 3.8.

Cool.

Since the code here hasn't changed in a while, I will go ahead and 
remove it from the repository. You can always git checkout 0.15.4. which 
will be the last version release we have this miner packaged under to 
get the sources.

Any problems, let me know.

--
Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.