Hi! (Readding the mailing list in CC)
On 8/19/11, James Hurford <terra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am I correct in this? > > - miners are independent of the rest of tracker Yes, they are independent processes and you could write them without any dependency to Tracker (any process pushing sparql into tracker can be considered a miner). That being said, to make the things easier miners should implement the interface in libtracker-miner, and use libtracker-sparql to insert stuff into Tracker. So we strongly recommend to use those Tracker libraries but are not mandatory to have a miner. > - miners don't know about each other and neither does tracker know about > them Yes (I assume "tracker" means "tracker-store") > - miners only purpose is to extract data from various sources and lets > store know about this data Yes. > - the store is responsible for storing this in some sort of DB Yes. > - tracker-extract is only used by tracker-miner-fs to extract meta > data about the files it finds Yes > - is tracker-extract used by any of the other miners? No, it is not used by other miners > - if not is it possible for other miners to do so? Nothing prevent them to do so. You could write a new miner for some specific purpose and call tracker-extract when needed. I wonder if this situation could ever happen... usually fine-tuning the miner-fs configuration and adding few extractor-module solve anything related with local files. Regards, Ivan _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list