Beagle Newsletter -- 1/3/05

[Joe Gasiorek <joe gasiorek gmail com>]

Beagle Newsletter

3 December 2005

Welcome to another edition of the Beagle Newsletter. If you're new to

the project you can read up about it on our website:

   http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle

Release

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Beagle 0.0.4 was released on Fri, 10 Dec 2004.  It

included vast improvements from the previous

release including an new gmime-based mail backend,

relevancy scoring, improved office filters.

You can find a tarball on the GNOME ftp server.

Hacking

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Calendar

   Joe Shaw has created a Calendar backend that will

   index your Evolution calendar.

Office Filters

   Veerapuram Varadhan improved the indexing of

   Microsoft Office and Open Office with updated filters.

Best

    Best now has the ability to limit show search results

    by type such as IM Logs, Pictures, Music, etc.  Also,

    thanks to Joe Shaw, Best saves the users search history.

inotify

    Robert Love has released a new version of his inotify

    kernel patch.  The latest version includes the start

    of a locking rewrite in inotify, introducing ref counting

    and saner locking.

   Packages can be found here:

   http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/kernel-rml/

   Patches can found here:

   ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/

Mozilla Backend

    Fredrik Hedberg wrote a backend to indexing local

    mail, cached imap mail and rss feeds.  The

    backend works both in Linux and Fredrik's Win32

    port of Beagle.

Discussion

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IM Log Viewer

    The long missing application to view IM logs has

    been the subject of much discussion as of late.

    Tuomas Kuosmanen blogged about the interface

    and there was discussion on the mailing list about

    its status.

    http://tigert.gimp.org/log/archives/2004/11/29/date-revisited-new-thoughts/

Dependency's and Packaging

    Many problems people seem to be having with

    Beagle are a result of not having the correct

    version of a dependency.  In fact, gecko-sharp,

    evo-sharp, gmime, and DBUS all must be pulled

    from CVS/SVN to correctly run Beagle.  In addition

    some distributions, such as Fedora Core 3, don't

    have Mono packages.  The latest requirement

    listings can be found at http://beaglewiki.org

Beagle's Purpose

    In general, what information should be available

    to Beagle?  Is Beagle built to be a locate replacement?

    If so, should it index header files in /usr/include?

    Is it just for desktop use and not deal with man

    pages and docs?

Web Search Interface

    There has been discussion on the mailing list as

    to whether a web interface for Beagle should

    be created.  There is already a Network interface

    for Beagle but many people suggested using

    something XML based.



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