Am 17.03.2013 15:27, schrieb Torsten Bronger: > Hallöchen! > > Sebastian Kraft writes: > >> [...] >> >> Your proposal was to add aliases in the database. But this will be >> quite specific to the library used by applications and fill the >> database with highly redundant information. Not a good solution >> IMO. > > In my opinion, it is not redundant. On the contrary, it is valuable > information. If somebody could provide us with a complete aliases > list, the problem would be solved for good. (New LensFun entries > will use exiv2 names anyway.) > >> Maybe we should start creating an alias.xml like it was proposed >> somewhere in this thread. Then we will see how many lenses are >> actually concerned and can better decide how to solve this in a >> clean way. > > I think this is the best solution. The only problem is, how do we > get the aliases? We will have to hope that people running into this > problem will find their way to the mailing lists.
That's exactly the point I don't like about this approach as it yields to a constant fixing of aliases and names. Maybe a more intelligent search like Markus Jung recommended can solve most of the problems. But then it's the question who implements this, as I won't have time for such a quite big task. The database search code in Lensfun is not an easy thing to understand and modify. Anyway... should we decide to collect critical lenses in an alias.xml file as a first step? This will help to get an overview and list of how many lenses are actually causing problems. AFAIK currently only the Tamron 17-50 would be on this list. If we ever find more lenses and have more example cases the decision could be made if fixing the search would help or introducing alias names is the better solution. Rewriting the search algo or restructuring the database only because of one odd lens name is a bit too early I think. Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list darktable-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
