Finally! 0.3 seems one step closer now. I made pre-release tarballs for beagle and libbeagle. You can get them from here:
http://kubasik.net/beagle/beagle-0.3.0.tar.gz http://kubasik.net/beagle/libbeagle-1.0.tar.gz We would really appreciate if some of you could try this and let us know about any stopper bugs. If people can provide packages for the common distributions, then it might be easier for a lot of other people to test. Note that libbeagle is now distributed separately. Also the earlier libbeagle-0.0 will not work with beagle-0.3. Thanks in advance. Nearly every codepath underwent some change so just run it the usual way you do. Also this release has API and ABI changes from the 0.2.x series. If you are running any of the 0.2.x versions, everything should be automatically upgraded. If you are running trunk, you might want to erase ~/.beagle. Some of the new features that could get some testing, - beagle-settings and beagle-config. Besides there are now global configuration files at /etc/beagle/config-files/ - web interface (WebInterface option has to be enabled; either use beagle-settings or "beagle-config Networking WebInterface true") at http://localhost:4000/ The webinterface is minimal but usable (and useful too). We are working on it to add standard features to it. See web-interface->help for how to open the result links - New tex filter, opera webhistory backend. ... the music filter should now index lot more tags and the image filter should now index several iptc tags too. Firefox extension to index firefox webhistory. Less troublesome Thunderbird extension. Nautilus metadata is also indexed. - beagle-search got some UI touches as well. I know some of you have comments about some design issues in the UI but for the time being, please focus on crashes/incorrect data. BTW, there is a bugzilla bug if you want to comment on the UI design of beagle-search. - Some additions to query syntax - network search (I am not sure how stable this is but from my experience with the webinterface this should work too) - the usual suspects - indexing some file takes 100% cpu for a long time, beagled/index-helper not killed after session logout, stale temporary files in ~/tmp etc. That reminds me, some OpenSuSE 10.3 users reported that certain emails hang gmime (basically means those emails wont be indexed and indexhelper will hang on that file) - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485005 Things to keep in mind: - the python and libbeagle apps out there _might_ not work (if they dont just work, then they need some renaming and tweaking). Specifically, kerry works (you have to tweak the build scripts to get it built with libbeagle-1.0). But the settings-gui with kerry and beagle-kontrol (that comes with kbeaglebar) should not be used. They use the old style config files. - I checked the latest shared-mime-info that beagle uses to detect mimetypes of files. The magic for the office types (doc/ppt/xls) are incomplete; so several valid office files will probably be misrecognised and ignored. - If you have a torrent download directory, its best to add it as an excluded subdirectory; some torrent clients continuously write/close the file as they receive data causing reindexing of the same file over and over. - Enabling avahi during ./configure will cause beagle to publish its search service via avahi and those machines can be searched remotely. Avahi is disabled by default because some of use experienced stability problems with avahi-sharp. Thats all for now. Please test the above tarballs and let us know if anything is seriously wrong. If things go smooth, we expect to get 0.3 out in about a week from now. Thanks in advance for your co-operation, - dBera -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
