Thread: My letter to Jolla and what was wrong with Harmattan
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2012-09-04 , 14:14
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
isnt tracker an indexer? Why on earth do they indexing password :O
One part of tracker is certainly an indexer, yes. Probably the better known part.

Tracker also offers a triple store[1], using RDF[2], interfaced with using SPARQL[3], which means it is also a data store, and is used as the storage for a number of things on Harmattan.

It's also used in Nemo Mobile for some things (gallery, messages, contacts), and will probably stay for the forseeable future. It has issues, but it's stable, and reasonably battle-tested, and replacing it isn't trivial.

I think there have been discussions about doing indexing a bit differently though (to avoid the more visible problems evidenced in Harmattan and Fremantle), but no concrete plans yet.

Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
but yes tracker seems to have stupid issues that need to be fixed however tracker is fully opensource
Indexing (in general, but particularly on Linux) is a bit of a non-trivial problem for various technical reasons that I really should write about one day. Suffice to say it's not an easy area to do really well right now.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resourc...tion_Framework
3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
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