On Tuesday 12 September 2006 07:53, Jonas Lindqvist wrote: > gift-add-collection.pl would need much more than just a --no-thumbs > option to become perfect for MY very specific needs. > > I would need a --no-reindex option to keep it from reextracting > features if I have the fts files already.
The current behavior was intended to do so. It does not just in the case you did a reinstall of the GIFT between two reindexes. I added the current behavior in order to make development easier while still achieving a good speedup if nothing is changed in the script. Maybe the current behavior should be replaced by the --no-reindex behavior you suggest and a --force-reindex option should be added. > I would need a --append option to make it append to a collection > instead of replacing the collection (as it does today). What do you mean? I do not really understand. > I would need a --no-image-paths option to make it not store the image > paths in the url2fts.xml file, since I just need the image names to > be presented by the gift server. I thought you can get a behavior close to that by the proper choice of prefixes (empty) in gift-add-collection.pl. > I would need a --minimize-downtime option to first extract features, > then recreate the url2fts.xml file into a tmp dir, then create the db > and mrml files into a tmp directory, and then moving the finished > files into the correct places (as atomically as possible) just before > it restarts the gift server. This would be very interesting for everyone and is a relatively good ersatz before a real live reindex is added to the GIFT. > > gift-add-collction.pl is a very useful tool to get started, and to > try to follow what goes on in the indexing phase. A --no-thumbs > option would probably be useful for many people, but the other > options I would need is probably quite specific to what I feel I need. > Also, I need to fit the indexing into a routine where I also handle > keywords and other metadata, so I will need to write my own tools > anyway. ...and I do think that David and other people would be interested in that, too. > But, I'll think about adding a --no-thumbnails option to gift-add- > collction.pl. After all I haven't really contributed to this project > yet, and I think it is about time I do. This would be most appreciated. > I hope I will have some spare time to spend on the GIFT during this > weekend. :-) Wolfgang -- Dr. Wolfgang Müller LS Medieninformatik Universität Bamberg Check out the SIG MM web site http://www.sigmm.org _______________________________________________ help-GIFT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gift
