On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 01:04 +0100, Jukka Zitting wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 16:30 +0100, Jukka Zitting wrote:
> >> Anything I can do to help?
> >
> > 1. try out trunk (maybe someone could upload a SNAPSHOT)
> 
> I've been using the trunk for a while now. It works fine for me.

that makes two of us :-)

> > 2. (question for after the release) how much work is required on Tika's
> > binary typing before it'd be suitable for use in RAT?
> 
> Tika trunk has a nice new Detector mechanism for detecting file types
> in various different and pluggable ways. See the related discussion
> [1] and the current code [2]. I'm cautiously hopeful of having this
> code released in Tika 0.3 in time for the ApacheCon EU.

great

> I'm not sure about the exact requirements RAT has for type handling,

i'm not sure either off the cuff :-)

> but the Detector feature in Tika should be flexible enough for quite a
> few use cases.

great

i'll take a look once we've cut a release

- robert



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