[Nepomuk] [RFC] File Indexers

[phreedom at yandex.ru]

On Вторник 19 марта 2013 23:35:42 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> As your guys might remember, we moved away from Strigi for the 4.10
> release. Our solution however, still does not support any document formats
> apart from PDF. We need to change that and support other formats. There are
> 2 possible ways to go about this -
> 
> 1. We use Okular which supports a number of popular formats
> 2. We write our own indexers by using the relevant library.

I know I risk starting a flamewar, or more likely, there's no risk, and instead 
a 100% guarantee, but:

  3. Use libStreamAnalyzer.

Take a look back at how many tiny issues and corner cases had to be fixed so 
far, how many lib quirks had to be accounted for? This was also the most 
significant source of troubles for libstreamanalyzer.

What this duplication of effort has accomplished so far? And what happens if or 
hopefully when Nepomuk outgrows this file-based sandbox?

-- Evgeny