[Kde-pim] Restructuring Baloo

[Achim Bohnet]

On Sunday 21 Sep 2014 16:17:28 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 19 September 2014 16:45:29 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > > * We can move the reading/writing of tags to KFileMetaData as it is
> > > "metadata" related.
> > 
> > This sounds like a fairly large-scale API shuffling to me. I don't know
> > where
> > baloo lives in the hierarchy of dependencies wrt. kfilemetadata, but
> > everyone
> > who depends on baloo for tagging and rating must now depend on something
> > else
> > (which again, depending on the dependency tree might be something they
> > already
> > have, but you're still breaking an API and forcing source changes on third
> > parties).
> 
> Baloo has a hard dependency on KFileMetadata, so the dependency chain will
> not be a problem. The breaking of API definitely will be. We're currently
> not offering ABI or API stability in Baloo until it becomes a framework. A
> lot of the APIs in Baloo were hurried out for the 4.13 release.
> 
> I will invest some time in porting all the applications which use the
> current tagging API to minimize breakage - Dolphin, Gwenview and Digikam.

Hi Vihesh,
when you are at it, please: Tagging (aka categories) is also broken in 
kaddressbook since nepomuk -> baloo migration: a) old tags no longer visible 
in kadressbook b) newly created tags not usable externally (e.g. 
carddav/owncloud: akonadi:?tag=<N> instead of the value itself.

Hugs and as much beer as can drink guaranteed if/when you come to the LiMux
meeting in Munich this November ;-)

and last but not least: thx for baloo!
Achim

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