xesam-tools 0.2.0
I just released a new version of xesam-tools. What new features you ask?
- API to create queries and serialize them to xml according to the xesam query language draft
- A query parser that takes a xesam xml query and wraps it in native Python objects for easy manipulaions
- Beginnings of a unit test suite
So what is missing? Well a parser for the xesam end user search language would be nice. A super simple GUI app using the xesam search api. A deskbar handler. A bit of validation logic here and there would also be nice for developers. All good comes to those who wait.
Download: xesam-tools-0.2.0.tar.gz
So how is xesam progressing? Well, we are in the middle of defining an ontology for the desktop, and to this end we need to agree on a way of writing this ontology. There are three camps here – those who love RDF, those who dislike RDF and would like to use a .desktop like description framework, and finally those who think it would suffice with a written spec. Things are not progressing as fast as I (or many others) would like, but I’m confident that we’ll get there soonish (TM).
The biggest problem right now is actually the lack of a home…