Re: Question about importing

[Roland Mas <lolando debian org>]

Bill Moseley, 2008-01-20 16:12:55 -0800 :

> One reason for asking is I want to be able to use other applications
> to add photos into the library (and f-spot's database), so I want to
> add them in a way so f-spot will see that they have already been
> imported.

I wanted to do a similar thing.  I initially wrote a Perl script to do
that (copying the files and registering them into the F-Spot
database), but I had to fix it everytime the database schema changed.
So I'm currently rewriting it in C#, in order to be able to reuse the
code in F-Spot.  It only does the importing from a camera currently,
but I'll add support for importing from a card reader sometime soon.
I'll probably announce the results here (or post them as a patch).

(I don't know the exact answers to your previous questions, by the
way, I'm not familiar enough with the F-Spot code yet.)

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

Such compressed poems / With seventeen syllables / Can't have much meaning...
  -- in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)