Permission to break feature freeze for Nepomuk and Soprano

[Matt Rogers]

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On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Sebastian Trüg wrote:

> On Monday 03 September 2007 17:23:35 Matt Rogers wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> there has been a long silence around Nepomuk. Well, the main reason
>>> is that I
>>> was working heaviliy on Soprano2 [1]. It comes with a bunch of new
>>> features,
>>> a much cleaner API, a server/client architecture (quite simple but
>>> waaaay
>>> faster than DBus), and I intend to replace the Nepomuk middleware
>>> with it. I
>>> already did it locally and a commit "should" not break anything
>>> once Soprano2
>>> is copied to kdesupport.
>>>
>>> The main advantage of all this is: speed. No more DBus for
>>> requesting data. It
>>> is now done via tcp (and I would love some tips and help to add
>>> support for
>>> unix socket communication)
>>>
>>> If there are no objections until this evening I will proceed (I
>>> know it is
>>> short notice but I don't think it is such a big deal yet.)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>> [1] branches/work/sorano2
>>
>> What is the impact of this change? If you've done the change locally,
>> can you provide a diffstat and the summary of the changes?
>
> The changes are threefold:
> 1. Soprano in kdesupport is replaced 100% by Soprano2. Soprano 1  
> and 2 are
> neither binary or source compatible. Soprano2 introduces (among  
> other) the
> sopranoserver and client libs which are needed by nepomuk in 2 and 3.
>
> 2. kdelibs/nepomuk: only internal changes which now use  
> sopranoclient instead
> of the nepomuk middleware lib to access the data store. The API  
> does not
> change except for one method in ResourceManager which returns a
> Soprano::Model instead of the middleware registry.
>
> 3. kdebase/runtime/nepomuk: For now an aditional dependancy on  
> sopranoserver.
> I am planning to drop the dbus interface (base on the nepomuk  
> middleware)
> later.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>> You say it has a much cleaner API.
>
> Yes, Soprano2 has a much cleaner API than Soprano1. At least that  
> is my
> opinion. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian

The changes are too big for today, IMHO. I suggest waiting until next  
Monday.
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Matt


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