Has the Beagle wiki site been hijacked? I get a page about Banshee music file sharing.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:17:15 -0400 Jon Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.1.1. > > This version contains fixes for a number of bugs and one major new feature: > a new KMail backend written by the redoubtable D Bera. > > > OUR MANY URLS > ------------- > > To download the 0.1.1 tarball or learn more, visit the Beagle wiki at: > http://www.beagle-project.org > > Joe Gasiorek writes a Beagle newsletter. You can read it at: > http://www.beagle-project.org/Newsletter > > The latest gossip is available at: > http://www.planetbeagle.org > > Nat Friedman made some cool movies that demonstrate Beagle in action: > http://nat.org/demos > > We still talk about Beagle on the dashboard-hackers mailing list: > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > > George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (among others) > were granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_honorary_French_citizenship_during_the_French_Revolution > > > WHAT IS BEAGLE? > --------------- > > Beagle is a tool for indexing and searching your data. Beagle is improving > rapidly on many fronts, and should work well enough for everyday use. > > The Beagle daemon transparently monitors your data and updates the index > to reflect any changes. On an inotify-enabled system, these updates happen > more-or-less in real time. So for example, > > * Files are immediately indexed when they are created, are re-indexed > when they are modified, and are dropped from the index upon > deletion. > * E-mails are indexed upon arrival. > * IM conversations are indexed as you chat, a line at a time. > > Beagle uses the Lucene indexing system from the prodigious Doug > Cutting. > > Best is a graphical tool for searching the index that the daemon creates. > Best doesn't query the index directly; it passes the search terms to the > daemon and the daemon sends any matches back to Best. Best then renders the > results and allows you to perform useful actions on the matching objects. > > Indexing your data requires a fair amount of computing power, but the Beagle > daemon tries to be as unobtrusive as possible. It contains a scheduler that > works to prioritize tasks and control CPU usage, based on whether or not > you are actively using your workstation. > > > DEPENDENCY HECK > --------------- > > Beagle has many dependencies, and thus can be difficult to compile. > It requires: > * Mono 1.1.7 or better, along with the full Mono stack > * gtk-sharp 1.9.5 or better > * Gecko-sharp 2.0 > * Gmime 2.1.16 > * Libexif 0.5.7 or better > > For the best possible Beagle experience, you should also have: > * Evolution-sharp 0.10.2 > * A *patched* wv 1.0.3 --- the patch is available from > http://users.avafan.com/~fredrik/beagle/wv-libole2-readonly.patch > * An inotify 0.24-enabled kernel. Inotify is in the mainline Linux > kernel as of 2.6.13. > > > CHANGES SINCE 0.1.0 > ------------------- > > Daemon/Infrastructure: > * Keep track of the number of tasks we've processed in a given run > through the scheulder and yield if we pass a threshold from the CPU > stuff. (Joe) > * Add a new task type which removes all items which match a certain > property. (Joe) > * Fixed leaking index file descriptors. (Daniel Drake) > * Force the encoding of XmlSerializer to be UTF-8 since it defaults to > the current system encoding. (Joe) > > Backends: > * Initial KMail support. (D Bera) > * Fix an exception in the file system backend when trying to ignore > paths whose parent wasn't also being watched. (Lukas Lipka, Joe) > * Correctly handle removed items in the Evolution Data Server backend. > (Joe) > * Use a new URI scheme that is compatible with Evolution 2.4, so that > calendar items and contacts can be opened in Evo. (Joe, Lukas) > * Fix an exception in the Gaim backend when not using inotify. (Joe) > * Rename the IMLog backend to GaimLog. (Lukas) > * Better handling of directories with exotic permissions in the file > system backend. (Jon Trowbridge) > > Filters: > * Add a bunch of special text mime types found in shared-mime-info for > the plain text filter. (Joe) > * Support OOo Draw files in OpenOffice filter. (David Richards) > > UI/Tools: > * Fix an exception that would show up if you used beagle-index-url when > the IndexingService backend wasn't enabled. (Joe) > * Allow best to start beagled on amd64. (Jack Miller) > > Translations: > * Updated Bulgarian translation. (Alexander Shopov) > * Updated Chinese translation. (fwang) > * Updated Dutch translation. (Wouter Bolsterlee) > * Updated German translation. (Hendrik Brandt) > * Updated Japanese translation. (Takeshi AIHANA) > * Updated Vietnamese translation. (clyties) > > Everything Else: > * Build the Evolution Data Server backend into its own assembly and > install it into the system backend directory, allowing distributors to > package and ship it separately from the main Beagle package. (Joe) > > > KNOWN ISSUES > ------------ > > The file system is now much more robust than ever before. However, there > are still race conditions that can occur with certain combinations of > file system operations. In some cases it might be necessary to stop and > restart the daemon. > > Extreme spikes in memory usage have been observed in some cases. Certain > extremely large documents (particularly large HTML files) can temporarily > degrade your system's performance while they are being indexed. In most cases > of these cases, the memory is reclaimed by the system relatively quickly after > the document is indexed. There are other still-unexplained cases of excessive > memory use, in particular on SMP systems. > > At this point in development, we cannot commit to stable APIs or file formats. > You will almost certainly need to delete your indexes and start again at some > point in the future. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dashboard-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
