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Beagle Newsletter Issue 5 - 3 January 2005
Welcome to another edition of the Beagle Newsletter. If you're new to the project you can read up about it on our website.
Release
Beagle 0.0.4 was released on Fri, 10 Dec 2004. It included vast improvements from the previous release including an new gmime-based mail backend, relevancy scoring, improved office filters. You can find a tarball on the GNOME ftp server.
Hacking
Calendar
Joe Shaw has created a Calendar backend that will index your Evolution calendar.
Office Filters
Veerapuram Varadhan improved the indexing of Microsoft Office and Open Office with updated filters. Best
Best now has the ability to limit show search results by type such as IM Logs, Pictures, Music, etc. Also, thanks to Joe Shaw, Best saves the users search history.
inotify
Robert Love has released a new version of his inotify kernel patch. The latest version includes the start of a locking rewrite in inotify, introducing ref counting and saner locking. Packages can be found here.
Patches can found here.
Mozilla Backend
Fredrik Hedberg wrote a backend to indexing local mail, cached imap mail and rss feeds. The backend works both in Linux and Fredrik's Win32 port of Beagle.
Discussion
IM Log Viewer
The long missing application to view IM logs has been the subject of much discussion as of late. Tuomas Kuosmanen blogged about the interface and there was discussion on the mailing list about its status.
Dependency's and Packaging Many problems people seem to be having with Beagle are a result of not having the correct version of a dependency. In fact, gecko-sharp, evo-sharp, gmime, and DBUS all must be pulled from CVS/SVN to correctly run Beagle. In addition some distributions, such as Fedora Core 3, don't have Mono packages. The latest requirement listings can be found at http://beaglewiki.org
Beagle's Purpose
In general, what information should be available to Beagle? Is Beagle built to be a locate replacement? If so, should it index header files in /usr/include? Is it just for desktop use and not deal with man pages and docs?
Web Search Interface
There has been discussion on the mailing list as to whether a web interface for Beagle should be created. There is already a Network interface for Beagle but many people suggested using something XML based.
As always if you have any input to how the next Beagle Newsletter should be distributed or what should go in it please email Joe Gasiorek at joe.gasiorek@gmail.com
