On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:33 PM, todd rme <toddrme2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@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 > > What do you mean by "separate repository"? Do you mean people would > be able to build and install the plugins independently of > nepomuk-core? Certainly for the legally questionable ones this would > be nice. > Yes. That is what Will suggested. There could be another git repository ( nepomuk-indexing-plugins? ) like nepomuk-core [1]. Or we could just leave it to the packagers to split it out on their own and keep the plugins in nepomuk-core. Your choice. [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/nepomuk-core > -Todd > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << > -- Vishesh Handa
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