Bringing KIO support to the Collection Scanner

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Nikhil Marathe <nsm.nikhil at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>> Sorry, we had some issues with Mailman. Somehow Jos's mail was eaten.
>> Hence I am forwarding for him:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Jos van den Oever <jos at vandenoever.info>
>> To: amarok-devel at kde.org
>> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:08:33 +0200
>> Subject: Re: Bringing KIO support to the Collection Scanner
>>> How good are the strigi analyzers now? Back in '06 or '07 strigi did
>>> not support all the fields that taglib is able to read. We still have
>>> two analyzers in Amarok's source tree, and I'm pretty sure they are
>>> not actually maintained. Fyi, these were written in Glasgow when
>>> Martin and I talked to Jos about using Strigi/Xesam/Nepomuk/whatever
>>> it was called back then to replace the collectionscanner. Some of that
>>> code still exists in sqlcollection...
>> A few months back esp. the multimedia plugins have improved a lot. i suggest
>> you have compile strigi trunk and run rdfindexer on a collection to see what
>> data it outputs and if you think it is good enough.
>>
>>> More like write to an XML file, as we probably still want to be able
>>> to run the scanner separately. Additionally, the tag reading of
>>> Meta::File would have to be updated as well. Not sure where else we
>>> are using taglib directly.
>> You can run rdfindexer or xmlindexer or a more multimedia specific app with KIO
>> support in a process and process that data. There are two advantages to that:
>>  - more easy to do multithreaded scanning
>>  - safety against crashes of the scanner
>> Note that rdfindexer and xmlindexer have no KIO support. You have to add that.
>> This is also what KDE does. Have a look at kdelibs to see how.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jos
>>
>
> I'm not really aware of the complexity of this task, but could this be
> a Google Code-In task?
> I'm willing to mentor.

I'm going to go ahead and just say no, unless you have some particular
savant in mind.

Ian