The next fossology release (what we are currently calling 1.2 but
maybe should be 2.0) involves some pretty large changes. Especially
for licenses, data persistence, and future sharing of repository data.
http://fossology.org/task_list
Because of this it would be most helpful if you could let me know if
any of the following will mess you up:
1) switch to postgres 8.3 or greater
Some of you already use 8.3 (or possibly 8.4). I would like to
REQUIRE 8.3 or greater in order to provide better text searching and
tools to facilitate database partitioning. This means that if you are
using <8.3, you will have to upgrade postgresql. At some point we
will have to do this. I'm wondering if the next fossology release
will be a good time.
2) remove the Metadata analysis
If you are only interested in licenses, this analysis does nothing for
you except cost you time and disk space. What it does is extract
metadata from images, doc files, etc. This agent has caused many of
you to have install problems. It also writes a great many records to
the attrib table. Since (I believe) many of you run this agent
because you don't know what it does and we don't really make use of
the data, I'd like to remove the agent, at least until we make
pgkmetagetta a separate installable module.
Would these two things cause anyone hardship?
Thanks,
Bob Gobeille
b...@fossology.org
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