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authorSam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk>2019-05-20 22:35:20 +0200
committerSam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk>2019-05-25 20:57:08 +0200
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README: Prominently mention the two different tracker repos
Let's do our best to avoid confusion. Also link to gnome-online-miners.
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@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ Tracker is an efficient search engine and
[triplestore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore) for desktop, embedded
and mobile.
+The Tracker project is divided into two main repositories:
+
+ * [Tracker core](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker) contains the database
+ (*tracker-store*), the database ontologies, the commandline user
+ interface (`tracker`), and several support libraries.
+
+ * [Tracker Miners](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners) contains
+ the indexer daemon (*tracker-miner-fs*) and tools to extract metadata
+ from many different filetypes.
+
More information on Tracker can be found at:
* <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker>
@@ -20,6 +30,12 @@ IRC channel #tracker on:
* [irc.gimp.net](irc://irc.gimp.net)
+Related projects:
+
+ * [GNOME Online Miners](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-miners/)
+ extends Tracker to allow searching and indexing some kinds of online
+ content.
+
## Compilation
To setup the project for compilation after checking it out from