# storage

**Repository Path**: mirrors_chromium_gitlab_gnome/storage

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- **Project Name**: storage
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- **Created**: 2021-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-12

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## README

For more information see: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage

Storage provides a document store intended to replace the filesystem
for handling user data, an API for directly accessing Storage to
utilize its advanced features, a GnomeVFS module for more traditional
access, and a natural language component for generating searches
across a store.

Storage uses PET by Ulrich Callmier for syntactic parsing, but PET 
does not yet have a public release so we are including a version
inside Storage for now (we also have custom changes necessary to
make nl-parser work right).

Postgresql provides the backing for Stores, though fairly plain
SQL is used and consequently it is easy to support other SQL
servers (including possibly SQLlite).

Dependencies:
   Python >= 2.2
   Gnome Dev Platform >= 2.0
   Postgresql >= 7.3
   Postgresql Server >= 7.3
   ICU == 2.4 (for PET and nl-parser, 2.8 is also reported to work)

Build Instructions:
   Storage is comprised of a number of sub-modules. Eventually these
   will probably be broken out into their own modules, but since
   they are developed in parallel for now its easier for "cvs diff"
   and the like to have everything in a single CVS module.

   Sub-module build/install order:
     storage-store
     libstorage
     libstorage-translators
     vfs
     pet (with --with-memory-allocator=generic)
     libmrs
     libmrs-converter
     libstorage-nl
     applet

Running Instructions:

   1) Start the Store
   Just launch "storage-store", which should automatically run postgresql 
   (on port 11592). It will create a database in PREFIX/var/storage-store 
   the first time you run it. On Debian you may need to "chmod a+rw /var/run/postgresql"
   for the time being.

   2) Test that libstorage is working
   At this point go into libstorage/libstorage and try running the 
   test program "test-storage". This shouldn't die with errors!

   3) Test that libstorage-translators can actually import
   Now you should be able to import items into Storage. The easiest way
   to ensure this is working, is to use "test-import" in
   libstorage-translators/test. It takes a URI (you'll have to use one,
   even for local files). E.g. "test-import file:///home/seth/background.png"

   4) Try running standalone.py (also available as an applet). Type "images"
   in the box, press enter, and see if your imported image appears.