On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:50 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Erlend Davidson wrote: > > Well, won't GLS3 obsolete Tracker once it's finished and stable > > (which will take a much longer time than it will take Tracker)? Is > > it an entirely new filesystem, or a filesystem that lives on top of > > an existing one? > > its not a physical file system and does not really do anything that > tracker does not > > It uses FUSE to expose a user space filesystem in the same way that > tracker uses trackerdFS and beagle uses BeagleFS > > Its similiar to tracker but written in C++ and so uses different > technologies. > > I expect it to be much heavier than tracker though as its using Postgres > and not Sqlite like tracker. > > Also no Dbus and no C bindings so its not really feaible for Gnome or > XFCE at the moment. I dont think there is any integration with any gnome > stuff (Deskbar or Nautilus) > > Also seems to lack RDF ability for the metadata but otherwise is pretty > close to tracker in both scope and target audience (IE its not just a > dedicated indexer like Beagle or Strigii and like tracker closely > couples DB and Indexer).
it seems to me that the greatest place for these softwares to share code is in the various ways these services are exposed. i'm thinking gui: search, indexing, preferences, etc. what do you all think are areas where these projects can work together (which is vital). jon > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
