Permission to break feature freeze for Nepomuk and Soprano

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 03 September 2007 1:47:16 pm Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> 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. :)
> 
> 

Did this happen today?


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