Hello Jamie,

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jamie McCracken <
jamie.mccr...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Natan,
>
> thanks for the clarity
>
> >
> >
> > 1. A high level API that wraps around SPARQL: I do like the option of
> > using SPARQL for advanced queries, but right now we don't need that
> > much power and it raises the entry bar for new developers.
> >
>
> I believe this is planned. We have discussed having convenience libs to
> make things easier.
>
> > 2. A stable D-BUS API that we can use today. (I'm planning on
> > releasing some code that I'm working on before Tracker 0.7 is even
> > released.) We can't wait for tracker to add support for tracking
> > timestamps and stall all development until then.
>
> sure
>
> >
> > 3. The ability to quickly write indexers in any language and insert
> > new documents into the database over D-BUS: As said above, speed isn't
> > that much of a concern at the moment. It definitely makes sense to
> > eventually rewrite Python indexers in C to improve the performance,
> > but now is not the time for that. Time is a lot more valuable to us
> > then speed.
> >
>
> what exactly do you need to index? tracker is well on the way to
> indexing all local files, emails, rss feeds. Web services are coming
> soon too

That's a fair point. I forgot about the GSoC project to bridge web services.


>
>
> if the indexers you want are useful (to nokia) its quite likely they
> will fund development in tracker for them
>
>
> jamie
>
>
Natan
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