Jamie McCracken wrote:
The problem is then how do you take advantage of existing frameworks
under developemnt like Beagle, Kat and Tenor. They are the ones that
are producing the metadata in the first place and they each store it
in their own databases (Beagle uses lucene's DB, Kat Sqlite3, Tenor
Postgres and my own implementation of a metadata framework will use
the embedded mysql lib) so its kind of difficult to standardise it
in-process plus you also have a potentially huge dependency list which
no platform would accept in its core. Unfortunately I cant see any
other way round this but IPC.
To avoid the dependency problem a plugin model would be feasible
(dlopen). But you won't be able to use those plugins in-process unless
you have a common main loop
(http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common_main_loop/). It's a pity that
nobody wants to fix this.
Norbert
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