Beagle Newsletter - 21 June 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
Releases ----- Beagle Beagle is now at version 0.0.11.1 which is by far the best Beagle ever. The latest release included such improvements as a new web-services interface, a new configuration system and tons of locking fixes. Inotify Robert Love has released version 0.23 of his Inotify kernel patch. This version is required if you want inotify support in both the 0.0.11.1 release and CVS versions of Beagle. GMime GMime 2.1.15 is now required for mail support in Beagle. Joe Shaw has landed this change to coincide with the updated filtering code. The updated filtering code now has the ability to do such things as index mail attachments. Mono Mono version 1.1.18 is out and is recommended to get the most out of Beagle. The updated IO layer that was introduced in version 1.1.17 has reportedly made Beagle 2-3 times faster when indexing. Version 1.0.6 is the only version of Mono that works with Beagle from the 1.0 branch. Project ---- New Wiki With much help from the community, Joe Shaw has move the Beagle Wiki off of its former server running phpwiki to a new one running MediaWiki. MediaWiki supports many things, such as discussion pages in which many members of the community have already taken advantage of. Thanks Western Michigan University Computer Club for hosting the wiki for so long. FreeBSD Port Jean-Yves Lefort has started a porting effort to bring Beagle to FreeBSD. There are sure to be many more fixes needed while development has by no means slowed down, but this effort should help others looking to use Beagle on different operating systems. Packages Beagle is now being packaged for a few different Linux distributions. SUSE, Ubuntu, and Foresight each have packages which users can quickly install. Many community members are creating packages for other distributions such as Fedora Core. Localization Beagle now has localization support which many people have already taken advantage of. Even if you're new to the GNOME Translation Project, please look into translating Beagle to your language. Hacking ---- Configuration System Daniel Drake has created a new configuration system for Beagle. You can currently use the beagle-config tool to do cool things like have Beagle index more than just your home directory. As a result, Beagle does not use .noindex files anymore, so a beagle-settings GUI configuration utility has been worked on by Fredrik Hedberg. No D-BUS Beagle now does not use D-BUS for message passing. This greatly reduces the pain of installing Beagle seeing as how only certain versions of D-BUS worked with Beagle. So if you have had trouble installing Beagle in the past, give the current release a try. System Daemon There is work being done to create a system wide indexing process that would keep track of things like man pages, application launchers, icons and help documentation that are common to all users on the system. This way each user does not have to have that information indexed separately. New Filters Along with the new ability for filters to themselves create Indexables new Filters for Chm, Matlab, Scilab and many programming languages have been added to Beagle. Web Services Vijay has created a new networked mode of Beagle based on the improved web services interface. You can read all about how to set up Beagle this way on the wiki: http://beaglewiki.org/NetworkedBeagleSetup As always if you have any input to how the next Beagle Newsletter should be distributed or what should go in it please email Joe Gasiorek at joe gasiorek gmail com _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
