Re: [Tracker] Removal of some modules before 0.16.0

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 15/03/13 10:53, Martyn Russell wrote:
> 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?

If you want to see some idea of what we had in place for Tracker, you 
can see the removal commit here:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/commit/?id=2a91a2d43d320ad26762ee81688406e59d180e48

As you can see, there are a lot of files distributed around the system 
which I completely forgot about. This is worth considering. You may also 
be able to get the po/ files for translations to avoid extra work for 
the translation teams...

--
Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.