Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Moving towards internal metadata extractors

["Edward Duffy" <eduffy gmail com>]

Is there any advantage to keeping them internal?  Should we just stick
with tracker-extract for all types?

On 9/26/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Edward Duffy wrote:
> > Alrighty .. here's a new patch (against cvs, not the previous patch)
> > for pdf using poppler-glib and Fabien's ogg/vorbis extractor.
> >
>
> There's a problem with this - as soon as even a small pdf (100kb) is
> extracted tracker's memory usage permanently jumps up by between 2 and 3MB
>
> As a result I feel pdf extraction should remain external - perhaps a
> tracker-pdf-extract application using the existing code would do the trick.
>
>
>
> --
> Mr Jamie McCracken
> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/