On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:24 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:16 +0200, Maciej Piechotka wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 13:05 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > So we recently polled the tracker mailing list to make sure the core > > > developers and others interested had an opinion on GNOME module > > > inclusion for Tracker. You can see the thread here: > > > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/2009-August/msg00007.html > > > > > > The response was positive. So I would like to propose Tracker as a new > > > GNOME module. > > > > > > Right now Tracker 0.7 is currently in development and we are hoping to > > > get the 0.7. unstable release out the door in the coming month or so. > > > > > > Right now we are considering making the miners (the file system crawling > > > at this point) optional so it acts purely as a store if needed by ISVs. > > > This is not yet done in master but can be if that's a GNOME requirement. > > > > > > Dependencies include: > > > > > > libxml >= 0.6 > > > libpng >= 1.2 > > > libuuid > > > zlib > > > dbus >= 0.60 > > > sqlite3 >= 3.5 (built with --enable-load-extension) > > > hal >= 0.5 > > > vala >= 0.7.3 > > > pango >= 1.0.0 > > > > > > Beyond that, the rest of the requirements affect your extraction > > > ability. For example, if poppler-glib is on the platform, you can then > > > extract PDF files. This also depends on if streamanalyser is used or not > > > (which does all extraction for us and negates the needs for specific > > > libraries in Tracker). > > > > > > Dependencies about to be dropped but still needed: > > > > > > gmime > > > lex > > > yacc > > > libraptor > > > > > > The git repository is here: > > > > > > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/ > > > > > > We import the following libraries: > > > > > > libinotify > > > rasqal > > > > > > Licensing wise, those libinotify and rasqal both share the LGPL, as does > > > libtracker. The rest is GPLv2 or later. > > > > > > /discuss ;) > > > > > > > Well. Currently there are two projects which, at least for the first > > sight, are similar - Tracker and Beagle. So the first question is why > > should Gnome include Tracker and not Beagle? > > > I might be wrong and things might have changed, but isn't beagle > unmaintained? > > Last time I checked it had commit 36 h ago although it has no big changes in git. Anyway it seems much more stable for me (i.e. does not block my desktop). Regards
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