On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:04 +0200, Mildred Ki'Lya wrote: > Hi, > > Would you be interested in an extractor that extract information from > mailboxes written in Vala ?
Yes > If you are, I'll have to ask permission from my employer but I'm sure > it could be done. Great. For extractors to go upstream we require them to be licensed as GPL. You don't need to reassign copyright ownership to us. > (For the moment, it doesn't do MIME multipart nor threading since that > wasn't useful for my application) OK, MIME multipart would be very useful, though. > I prefer the approach of file extractors to the applications plugin that > updates the tracker database. The file extractors work for any filetype > you support while plugins have to be rewritten for every application. OK > For example, I don't use evolution, and my mail client changed from > sylpheed to claws-mail and now Thunderbird and perhaps soon Balsa. > Writing a plugin for each is a waste of time, especially considering > they all use standardised formats. Yes, sure. > Recently, I just realized that tracker was a wonderful thing. You could > write an e-mail reader that should just use tracker to find all the > e-mails you have on your machine. Indeed > The same way, we could hae a contacts application that would let you > see all contacts everywhere on your machine, vCards on your > ~/Documents, or sent to you as e-mail attachments... > There is no limitation. :-) > Truly interoperable Awesome that we have a new app developer who undoubtedly is going to make a lot of software like you just described earlier. > I'd love such a desktop, thank you guys to make this possible! No problem. Thank you for your enthusiasm. You just made our day. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof freelance software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
