Ah, I have overheard late-night tales of this epic flamewar murmured in dark corners of many a seedy IRC channel during my inquest into the history of GNOMish metadata magicks, but had yet to peruse the transcription scrolls for myself. I bid you thanks for the links ;)
man, 23 06 2008 kl. 23:56 +0200, skrev Wouter Bolsterlee: > 2008-06-23 klockan 21:01 skrev Anders Feder: > > A subset, yes, but as Wouter points out Tracker is XESAM-based which > > 'only' cover simple query cases, so certain advanced SPARQL queries (in > > particular 'join'-like operations) would map rather poorly into XESAM. > > > > How such queries would be handled by a translator is undefined. In > > theory, one could do something like constructing the actual graph > > resulting from i.e. a join operation in memory, but that is really quite > > a hack that doesn't scale well for big data sets. > > > > I've communicated with both Tracker and XESAM maintainers and they > > appear quite skeptical about RDF/SPARQL support in the short- to > > mid-term. > > The Tracker developers have shown to be particularly ignorant of any > RDF/SPARQL related subjects in the past. See for example the messages I've > sent to the "Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18" thread [1] on > desktop-devel-list one and a half years ago: [2--7]. The messages linked to > are all by me, but you may also find the comments by Ross Burton useful. The > thread is quite large so don't even try to read all of it... :) > > mvrgr, Wouter > > [1] > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-October/msg00175.html > [2] http://markmail.org/message/nj6ecn42xda4sq6x > [3] http://markmail.org/message/3hbuioopc5ib7uuq > [4] http://markmail.org/message/brt26slkzbwew3dw > [5] http://markmail.org/message/rl4ae2quaes6e5pd > [6] http://markmail.org/message/roa6qjkhomi4cgpw > [7] http://markmail.org/message/2jt5l2yz6wyxdqux -- Anders Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
