On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Lennart Poettering<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18.08.09 18:55, Xan Lopez ([email protected]) wrote: > >> > If tracker-store is not useful on its own and currently not used by >> > anything else in GNOME, does it really make sense to push it into >> > GNOME? >> > >> > Also, even if the store has uses besides the indexer, just be honest: >> > does it *really* add any measurable benefit to GNOME if this is in >> > GNOME if the most important user (which is the indexer) is not? >> > >> > Does it really make sense to push the store independantly of the >> > indexer? >> >> Well, on one side this is the classical chicken-egg problem, isn't it? > > No, it's not. Many libraries have been made nothing more than maybe > blessed dependencies and are nonetheless being used everywhere.
And that's one way of solving the chicken-egg problem. The other is accepting the dependency before it's used, assuming the developers want it in. I think it's OK to prefer solving things in the first way, but I think it's clear adding new libraries to the platform requires some way or the other of breaking the status quo... > > I don't think it would be a good idea to use GNOME solely as a vehicle > to make things more popular with other developers... With that I can totally agree. Xan > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
