On 1/26/07, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert, there is a program called Wega. It is a viewer actually. >
Sounds interesting, I'll check into it. > As for statistics and the other stuff you suggested - it does more or > less just that. > The statistics part I suggested was more or less a benefit of collecting the data, the real functionality was basically what others had suggested, I.e. finding, sorting, viewing the images. Statistics would be interesting, but by itself might be very limited in utility. > I accept your opinion about software engineering here. My proposal about > Java was directed more or less towards the same goal. > Oh dont get me wrong. I think Java is a great prototyping language for the kind of project he is attempting. It has lots of stuff built in (like garbage collecting), and there are lots of useful libraries and utilities out there for him to tap into. Myself, I'm a Lisp bigot, it was the second language I learned after BASIC, and I had to unlearn all the ugly things about BASIC that made it hard to use an elegant language like Lisp. > Boris > > > Gonz wrote: > > You didnt specify what level of effort you are talking about. 3 man > > months, 6 man months, a man year? Also the expectations. Is this a > > single course project, Bachelor's thesis, Masters? > > > > With all due respect to others who have gotten into a discussion of the > > merits of portability, language features, etc. I would not even worry > > right now about these aspects. Assuming a Bachelor's thesis, 3 man month > > level of effort, I would just go with the language that gets you from A > > to Z the quickest. If you are thinking commercialization later on, > > re-write it in the appropriate language (probably C++). If you are > > thinking that it would be useful to you and to others, then the quickie > > language is still the best. > > > > As to suggestions, the EXIF database sounds like a very decent > > suggestion. I.e. show me thumbs of all the pics I have taken with my > > FA85 1.4. That would be cool. Or gather statistics. What is the > > distribution of pics I took at each ISO (this was a recent discussion on > > this mail list). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
