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Subject: Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi
From: Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date: 2012-10-08 14:34:34
Message-ID: 5072E47A.6060102 () math ! unl ! edu
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On 10/08/2012 08:59 AM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:51 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
ffmpeg in particular is a patent mine-field indeed. echoing others...
if these can be deployed in some form of separately built/deployed
plugins, that would be ideal.
-- rex
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