Re: [Tracker] libmediaart 0.5.0



On 31/07/14 09:19, Jens Georg wrote:

About libmediaart
=================

Library tasked with managing, extracting and handling media art caches

Is this meant to become stable for the next Gnome release?

I am just doing release right now, I am not so interested in stability.
I've not really been so clear/tight on this point, but what I am
concerned about is the API and how broken it is/was.

This is the first release to really make nasty API breaks, but also,
I've heavily documented them so people know what they're there for.

Ah, I wasn't asking about stability of this version. Let me rephrase my
initial question: What's the recommended/required mediaart version for
GNOME 3.14? - do I have to port Rygel to 0.5? :)

OK :)

No you don't have to port, not as far as I can see.
I have ported Tracker already of course.

In terms of "functionality" there is very little difference, more error reporting and feedback, but that's about it IIRC.

I'm not promising stability yet because I know Bastien and others want
some async APIs and I have yet to add those.

Which would make total sense IMHO.

As for GNOME release ... I see no reason why not, I have been testing
with this a lot lately and with Tracker today too - I've fixed a bunch
of things and added a bunch of test cases too (which we didn't have
before). So I think it's more tested and documented than it was and
you at least know what is going on now with the GError reporting I've
added. The plan is to make Tracker master (1.1.x) stable before the
GNOME release date, which means GNOME would depend (in some way) on
the libmediaart 0.5.0 work. I think there will be another release
before then of libmediaart.

Which kind-of answers it.

Yes, but the next release is unlikely to change the APIs much, it's more a stabilisation before the GNOME release.

I suppose you could argue that updating means 2 versions of the library aren't needed by the platform and it's less of a headache for architects :)

Hope that answers your question :)

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder & Director @ Lanedo GmbH.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/martynrussell


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