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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi
From:       Vishesh Handa <me () vhanda ! in>
Date:       2012-10-08 14:12:14
Message-ID: CAOPTMKA1kzraZT6ftUS9dyHSH+hcjJdW_6RaLc2roTHNVs6Rww () mail ! gmail ! com
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A quick clarification -

All of these additional dependencies - TagLib, FFmpeg, Exiv2, Poppler and
more - they are all OPTIONAL. If you don't have the required library, then
we just will not extract metadata from the mimetypes that it supports.

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Vishesh Handa <me@vhanda.in> wrote:

> Hey everyone
>
> For 4.10, Nepomuk will no longer depend on Strigi for file indexing. We
> have written our own file indexer which are based on popular libraries such
> as taglib, exiv, ffmpeg, etc. This allows us to better control the indexing
> process. If you would like to know more reasons as to why the change was
> done, please read [1].
>
> I will be merging this new file indexing code into master by the end of
> the week.
>
> @ Packagers:
>
> I talked with Will Stephenson (OpenSuse) a couple of weeks back, and he
> informed me that it might be problematic for distributions to ship
> nepomuk-core if it depends on ffmpeg, taglib, and other packages which are
> slightly controversial. Is this going to be a problem? He suggested that
> the file indexing plugins be present in a separate repository. It doesn't
> affect us much, so I would like to know your opinion? Do you want it to be
> in a separate repo?
>
> [1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/nepomuk/2012-September/003167.html
>
> --
> Vishesh Handa
>
>


-- 
Vishesh Handa

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A quick clarification -<br><br>All of these additional dependencies - TagLib, FFmpeg, \
Exiv2, Poppler and more - they are all OPTIONAL. If you don&#39;t have the required \
library, then we just will not extract metadata from the mimetypes that it \
supports.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Vishesh \
Handa <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:me@vhanda.in" \
target="_blank">me@vhanda.in</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hey \
everyone<br><br>For 4.10, Nepomuk will no longer depend on Strigi for file indexing. \
We have written our own file indexer which are based on popular libraries such as \
taglib, exiv, ffmpeg, etc. This allows us to better control the indexing process. If \
you would like to know more reasons as to why the change was done, please read \
[1].<br>

<br>I will be merging this new file indexing code into master by the end of the \
week.<br><br>@ Packagers:<br><br>I talked with Will Stephenson (OpenSuse) a couple of \
weeks back, and he informed me that it might be problematic for distributions to ship \
nepomuk-core if it depends on ffmpeg, taglib, and other packages which are slightly \
controversial. Is this going to be a problem? He suggested that the file indexing \
plugins be present in a separate repository. It doesn&#39;t affect us much, so I \
would like to know your opinion? Do you want it to be in a separate repo?<br>

<br>[1] <a href="http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/nepomuk/2012-September/003167.html" \
target="_blank">http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/nepomuk/2012-September/003167.html</a><span \
class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br> <span \
style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">Vishesh Handa</span><br> <br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><span \
style="color:rgb(192,192,192)">Vishesh Handa</span><br><br>



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