On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:28:32 +0100, Martyn Russell <mar...@lanedo.com> wrote: > On 29/03/10 12:58, Ivan Frade wrote: >> Hi all, > > Hi, > >> Currently the relation extractor <-> mime type is hardcoded _inside_ the >> extractor module code. It could be very convenient to have it in an >> external file (one per extractor, one for all extractors... not sure >> which one is the best option). >> >> An example of why is it a problem right now: our gstreamer extractor >> works fine for "application/ogg" files, but it won't process them >> because the mimetype is not included in the code. If somebody wants to >> add that mimetype they are forced to a) recompile b) copy/paste a new >> extractor modifying the mimetype. > > This is a good point. I would love to do two things here: > > 1. Have the precedence order for extractors (done in tracker-extract.c) > perhaps in the config? (to allow some extractors to override others) If every extractor has a desktop file, then we can either add a key in the desktop file, or name them like N-myextractor.desktop where N is a number.
> > 2. Some solution for dynamic mime-type configuration per extractor as > Ivan says. > >> Please take this into consideration before the 0.8 release. > > We should try to get this in if we can. I can see this as a potential > problem otherwise. I know that with 0.6 this area is a mess and we > really can do more here before the release I think. _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
