[Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

[Vishesh Handa]

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 at 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
>
>


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Vishesh Handa
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