[XESAM] Aiming for RC1 this sunday. Missing pieces...

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/9/20, Fabrice Colin <fabrice.colin at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On 9/18/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know that Strigi has some work in, but I am not sure how far they are
> > (they share a XESAM query parser with Pinot (part of the Dijon project
> on
> > berlios)).
> >
> Strigi and Pinot share the same (give or take a few SVN revisions)
> parser for the Query Language. Both have a parser for the User
> Search Language, but that's not shared right now.
>
> > Joe Shaw <joe at joeshaw.org>, xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
> > > Similarly, who has implemented on the client?  I am only aware of the
> > > reference tests that Mikkel has written.  Beagle doesn't have a
> > > client.  If there are other clients out there, has anyone tested
> > > against the Beagle-Xesam adaptor?  I sure haven't.  I know Arun did do
> > > the server work using the reference client.
> >
> Anyone knows whether there are any plans to add support to Deskbar, or
> the new GTK file chooser ?


Yes there are :-) When xesam-glib is ready I plan to write both things
(unless someone beats me to it :-D).

> I am currently working on xesam-glib a native client binding with
> > gobjects much similar to the libbeagle api. The code is not release
> ready
> > yet, but it it really really close now (I am actually mostly waiting for
> > Xesam RC1).
> >
> I might be interested in making use of this in Pinot.


Cool, I will see to that I release the code asap, but I have quite a lot of
xesam stuff going on, but I will hurry! :-)

I am only now getting my head around the updates made to the spec
> and the documentation you wrote for the Query Language. I notice
> that the documentation says that query's attributes are "content"
> and "source", whereas the examples and the xsd file in xesam-tools
> 0.5.0 list "content" and "storedAs". Which is right ?



Ooops, that is a glitch of mine. Strictly according to the current draft the
properties are content and storedAs. The catch is that I have been wanting
to suggest reverting storedAs to "source". That is probably what slipped
through :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel
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