Permission to break feature freeze for Nepomuk and Soprano

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Monday 03 September 2007 19:27:14 Matt Rogers wrote:
> 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.

right. :)