[haiku-commits] Re: r36592 - haiku/trunk/src/kits/tracker

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 19:58:21 +0200

Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What about your tracker fix branch ? :-)
> Well, it's not forgotten :-) The main work was on replacing that 
> vsposelist horror, so indeed those trunk bugs don't exist in that 
> branch. However i see it more like a proof of concept that's now 
> vastly 
> out of sync with trunk but that i could redo by heart easily.

Too bad.

> Actually 
> this code found a second life and is now part of a shamefully hidden 
> project of mine which is a full tracker rewrite. The problem is that 
> i 
> just got back recently on coding and i felt more like patching the 
> current code for the alpha, and even though it's painful, it's still 
> kind of fun and rewarding to catch those little insects :D

Oh, that would make a nice addition to your branch, I guess.
Anyway, if you are already working on a new Tracker, I had some plans 
for a Tracker rewrite back in 2002. Maybe there is still something 
useful in that:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=000399b9f6c8cb35_mailit%40mail.pointest.com&forum_name=opentracker-develop
com&forum_name=opentracker-develop

Bye,
   Axel.


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