On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 09:05 -0400, Todd Slater wrote: > On 6/29/07, Jeff Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several months ago, jaime wrote a blog posting showing the new > > interface for tracker and showing how much better it was. This post > > was in Feb and is here: http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/6588.html. > > > > In that same blog posting dated Feb 13, 2007, jaime stated, "Expect a > > release some time this week as I iron out the few remaining > > bugs/issues. ". Since it is June 28th and there is still not a tracker > > 0.6 release... are we to assume that tracker development is dead? > > Why not check out the latest from svn? I just built it yesterday. > > > If not, make a bloody release. Follow the release early, release often > > mantra. Has beagle trumped tracker so much as to have you call it > > quits? > > > > This isn't a flame but I'm curious to know why there has not been a > > release or even a peep from anyone about tracker. The only person who > > has said anything is njpatel demoing his awesome work like affinity > > built ontop of tracker. > > I've been lurking on this list and while I wouldn't say there's been > ton of action, to say there hasn't been "even a peep" hardly seems > accurate, either: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/tracker-list/ > > > Right now, beagle seems to be the way to go for a user trying to index > > and search their documents. Am I wrong? > > Only you know your requirements. But, google just released its desktop > search for linux. See also > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/desktop_search_tools_gnu_linux_tracker_recoll_strigi_deskbar
the google one is not open source (so will not be shipped by open source distros), lacks desktop integration and has no tagging/extensible metadata so I dont think its a stright swap for tracker yet. (it has no Evo support either nor XESAM support) If you use a lot of google stuff like gmail and google office then google desktop indeed makes more sense compared to beagle/tracker. jamie. _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
